Verse 17
2 Kings 24:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother,
king in his place, and changed 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 became
his servant three years. Th...
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2
The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Syrians,
bands of the Moabites, and b...
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3
Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah, to remove them
out of his sight for the si...
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4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem
with innocent blood, and the L...
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5
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they
written in the book of the c...
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6
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his place.
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7
The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the
king of Babylon had taken, from the...
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8
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned in Jerusalem three months....
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9
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that
his father had done.
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10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
to Jerusalem, and the city was b...
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11
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants
were besieging it,
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12
and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon—he,
his mother, his servants, his p...
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13
He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD’s house and
the treasures of the king’s hous...
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14
He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty
men of valour, even ten thous...
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15
He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the
king’s wives, his officers, and t...
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16
All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the
smiths one thousand, all of the...
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17
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother,
king in his place, and changed hi...
18
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem....
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19
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
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20
For through the anger of the LORD, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah,
until he had cast them out...
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