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2 Kings 24
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24 During Jehoiakim’s reign,[a] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked.[b] Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.[c] 2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, just as in the Lord’s message that he had announced through his servants the prophets. 3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins that Manasseh had committed.[d] 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.[e]

5 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.[f] 6 He passed away[g] and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king. 7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Stream of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

Jehoiachin’s Reign over Judah

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother[h] was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem. 9 He did evil in the sight of[i] the Lord as his ancestors had done.

10 At that time the generals[j] of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.[k] 11 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it. 12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered[l] to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign,[m] took Jehoiachin[n] prisoner. 13 Nebuchadnezzar[o] took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items that King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple, just as the Lord had warned. 14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land. 15 He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land.[p] 16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors.[q] 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s[r] uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother[s] was Hamutal,[t] the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 19 He did evil in the sight of[u] the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.[v]

20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.[w] Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 24:1 tn Heb “In his days.”
  2. 2 Kings 24:1 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
  3. 2 Kings 24:1 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
  4. 2 Kings 24:3 tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”
  5. 2 Kings 24:4 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.”
  6. 2 Kings 24:5 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
  7. 2 Kings 24:6 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
  8. 2 Kings 24:8 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
  9. 2 Kings 24:9 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
  10. 2 Kings 24:10 tn Heb “servants.”
  11. 2 Kings 24:10 tn Heb “went up [to] Jerusalem and the city entered into siege.”
  12. 2 Kings 24:12 tn Heb “came out.”
  13. 2 Kings 24:12 sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.
  14. 2 Kings 24:12 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  15. 2 Kings 24:13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nebuchadnezzar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  16. 2 Kings 24:15 tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”
  17. 2 Kings 24:16 tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”
  18. 2 Kings 24:17 tn Heb “his.”
  19. 2 Kings 24:18 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
  20. 2 Kings 24:18 tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”
  21. 2 Kings 24:19 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
  22. 2 Kings 24:19 tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
  23. 2 Kings 24:20 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”
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2 Reyes 24
Biblia del Jubileo

24 En su tiempo subió Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, al cual sirvió Joacim tres años; y volvió, y se rebeló contra él.

2 Y el SEÑOR envió contra él ejércitos de caldeos, y ejércitos de sirios, y ejércitos de moabitas, y ejércitos de amonitas; los cuales envió contra Judá para que la destruyeran, conforme a la palabra del SEÑOR que había hablado por sus esclavos los profetas.

3 Ciertamente vino esto contra Judá por dicho del SEÑOR, para quitarla de delante de su presencia, por los pecados de Manasés, conforme a todo lo que hizo;

4 asimismo por la sangre inocente que derramó, pues llenó a Jerusalén de sangre inocente; por tanto el SEÑOR no quiso perdonar.

5 Los demás hechos de Joacim, y todas las cosas que hizo, ¿no está todo escrito en el libro de las crónicas de los reyes de Judá?

6 Y durmió Joacim con sus padres, y reinó en su lugar Joaquín su hijo.

7 Y nunca más el rey de Egipto salió de su tierra; porque el rey de Babilonia le tomó todo lo que era suyo, desde el río de Egipto hasta el río Eufrates.

8 De dieciocho años era Joaquín cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén tres meses. El nombre de su madre fue Nehusta hija de Elnatán, de Jerusalén.

9 E hizo lo malo ante los ojos del SEÑOR, conforme a todas las cosas que había hecho su padre.

10 ¶ En aquel tiempo subieron los esclavos de Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia contra Jerusalén y la ciudad fue cercada.

11 Vino también Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia contra la ciudad, cuando sus esclavos la tenían cercada.

12 Entonces salió Joaquín rey de Judá al rey de Babilonia, él, y su madre, y sus esclavos, y sus príncipes, y sus eunucos; y lo prendió el rey de Babilonia en el octavo año de su reinado.

13 Y sacó de allí todos los tesoros de la Casa del SEÑOR, y los tesoros de la casa real, y quebró en pedazos todos los vasos de oro que había hecho Salomón rey de Israel en la Casa del SEÑOR, como el SEÑOR había dicho.

14 Y llevó cautivos a toda Jerusalén, a todos los príncipes, y a todos los hombres valientes, diez mil cautivos; asimismo a todos los oficiales y herreros; no quedó nadie, excepto los pobres del pueblo de la tierra.

15 Asimismo transportó a Joaquín a Babilonia, y a la madre del rey, y a las mujeres del rey, y a sus eunucos, y a los poderosos de la tierra; a todos los llevó cautivos de Jerusalén a Babilonia.

16 A todos los hombres de guerra, que fueron siete mil, y a los oficiales y herreros, que fueron mil, y a todos los valientes que hacían la guerra, llevó cautivos el rey de Babilonia.

17 Y el rey de Babilonia puso por rey a Matanías su tío en su lugar, y le mudó el nombre por el de Sedequías.

18 De veintiún años era Sedequías cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén once años. El nombre de su madre fue Hamutal hija de Jeremías, de Libna.

19 E hizo lo malo ante los ojos del SEÑOR, conforme a todo lo que había hecho Joacim.

20 Porque la ira del SEÑOR era contra Jerusalén y Judá, hasta que los echó de delante de su presencia. Y Sedequías se rebeló contra el rey de Babilonia.

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