Verse 8
2 Kings 24:8
Bible in Basic English
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בֶּן שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ יְהוֹיָכִ֣ין בְּ/מָלְכ֔/וֹ וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה חֳדָשִׁ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּ/ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְ/שֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔/וֹ נְחֻשְׁתָּ֥א בַת אֶלְנָתָ֖ן מִ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
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Chapter 24 Context
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In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years;...
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And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of...
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Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; be...
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And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of...
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the hist...
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So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
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And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his...
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months,...
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
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At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every sid...
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And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
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Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants an...
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And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-hous...
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And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand...
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He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and...
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And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all...
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing...
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years...
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
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And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them...
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