Verse 17
2 Kings 24:17
Bible in Basic English
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּמְלֵ֧ךְ מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֛ל אֶת מַתַּנְיָ֥ה דֹד֖/וֹ תַּחְתָּ֑י/ו וַ/יַּסֵּ֥ב אֶת שְׁמ֖/וֹ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ
English Translation
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his uncle, king in his place, and he changed his name to Zedekiah.
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Chapter 24 Context
1
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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10
At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every sid...
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11
And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
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12
Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants an...
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13
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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14
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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17
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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