Ruma.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done.
(2 Kings)
Chapter 24
Of three kings in Judah: Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zidekiah.

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up; and Jehoiakim was subject unto him three years. And he turned and departed from him.

And the LORD sent upon him soldiers out of Chaldea, and out of Syria, and out of Moab, and out of the children of Ammon, and sent them into Judah to destroy him, according to the word of the LORD which he spake by his servants the prophets.

And it came to pass unto Judah, according to the word of the LORD, that he put them away out of his sight, because of the sin of Manasseh, which he had done; 4. Even because of the innocent blood which he shed, and made Jerusalem full of innocent blood, the LORD would not forgive.

And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

And the king of Egypt departed no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from him all that was the king’s in Egypt, from the river of Egypt even unto the river Phrath.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehuztha, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

And did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father had done.

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and came unto the city with a stronghold.

And when Nebuchadnezzar came to the city, and his servants, he besieged it.

And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon with his mother, and with his servants, and with his princes, and with his officers: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

And he took out from thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and of the king’s house, and brake in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in
the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said;

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men, and ten thousand captives, and all the carpenters, and all the smiths: and he left none but a few of the people of the land.

And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his chamberlains; and he carried away the mighty men of the land captives from Jerusalem to Babylon,

And the best of the men, seven thousand; and the carpenters, and the smiths, a thousand, all mighty men of war: and the king of Babylon brought them to Babylon.

And the king of Babylon made Mathaniah his cousin king in his stead, and changed his name to Zidekiah.

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamital, a daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

For so it came to pass with Jerusalem and Judah out of the wrath of the LORD, that he cast them out of his sight. And Zedekiah was turned aside from the king of Babylon.
(2 Kings)
Chapter 25
From the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity.

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against Jerusalem with all his power; and they encamped against her, and built a ruin round about her.

So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of Zidekiah the king.

And in the ninth month there was a great famine in the city, so that the people of the land had nothing to eat.

And they entered into the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which goeth unto the king’s garden. And the Chaldeans were round about the city. And he fled by the way of the plain.

But the power of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took him in the field of Jericho: and all the men of war that were with him were scattered from him.

And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblath; and they pronounced judgment upon him.

And they slew the children of Zedekiah before his eyes, and blinded Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan the chamberlain, servant to the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

And burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses, with fire.

And all the power of the Chaldeans, which was with the captain of the court, brake down the walls about Jerusalem.

And the rest of the people that were left in the city, which fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the rabble, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.

And of the least in the land let the courtier have husbandmen and husbandwomen.

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried the brass to Babylon.

And the pots, and the shovels, and the knives, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass, wherewith they ministered, took they away.

And the chamberlain took the pots, and the basons, and all that was gold and silver, 16. Two pillars, and a sea, and the chairs which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD.
The brass of all these vessels was not to be weighed.

There was a pillar eighteen cubits high, and the top thereof was also of brass, and three cubits
high; and the hoops and the pomegranates that were upon the top thereof were all of brass: in like manner was the other pillar with the hoops.

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the priest of the first order, and Zephaniah the priest of the second order, and three doorkeepers.

And a chamberlain of the city, which was set over the men of war, and five men that were always before the king, which were found in the city, and Shopher the captain of the host, which taught the people war in the land, and threescore men of the people of the country, which were found in the city:

And Nebuzar-adan the chamberlain took them, and brought them unto the king of Babylon to Riblath.

And the king of Babylon smote them dead at Riblath in the land of Hemath. So Judah was carried away out of his land.

But over the rest of the people of the land of Judah, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon delivered up, he set Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan.

And it came to pass, when all the people of war, captains, and men, heard that the king of Babylon had set Gedaliah, that they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Thanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaeshaniah the son of Maechathi, and their men.

And Gedaliah sware unto them, and to their men, and said unto them: Fear not to be subject unto the Chaldeans: abide in the land, and be subject unto the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal family, and ten men with him, slew Gedaliah, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

And all the people arose, both small and great, and the captains of the host, and came into Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

And it came to pass in the thirty and seventh year after that Jehoiachin king of Judah was carried away, in the twenty and seventh day of the twelfth month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, brought forth the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of the dungeon.

And he spake kindly unto him, and set his throne over the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

And he changed the garments of his prison: and he did eat every way before him all the days of his life;

And he appointed him his portion, which was given him of the king every day all the days of his life.
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The first book of the Chronicle (1 Chronicles) ^
Chapter 1
Genealogical register of the patriarchs except Jacob.

Adam, Seth, Enos,

Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jared,

Enoch, Methusalah, Lamech,

Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth.

the children of Japheth are these: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thubal, Mesech, Thiras.

But the children of Gomer are: Askenas, Riphath, Thogarma.

the children of Javan are: Elisha, Tharsisa, Chitim, Dodanim.

the children of Ham are: Chus, Mizraim, Put, Canaan.

But the children of Chu are: Seba, Hevila, Sabtha, Ragema, Sabthecha. And the sons of Ragema are: Sheba and Dedan.

And Chus begat Nimrod, who began to be mighty in the earth.

Mizraim begat Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphthuhim,

pathrusim, kasluhim (from which are