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to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yahrushalayim.
And his eema's name was Zevidah, the daughter of
Pedayah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of vuvh,
according to all that his ahvot had done.
In his days Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel came
up, and Yahuyakim became his eved three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him.
2 And vuvh sent against him raiding bands of the
Chaldeans, and raiding bands of the Arameans, and
raiding bands of the Moavites, and raiding bands of the
children of Ammon, and sent them against Yahudah to
destroy it, according to the word of vuvh, which He spoke
by His avadim the neviim.
3 Surely at the commandment of vuvh came this upon
Yahudah, to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of
Menashsheh, according to all that he did;
4 And also for the innocent dahm that he shed: for he
filled Yahrushalayim with innocent dahm; which vuvh
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5 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuyakim, and all that he
did, are they not written in the Scroll of the Divre
HaYamim about the melechim of Yahudah?
6 So Yahuyakim slept with his ahvot: and Yahuyahchin
his son reigned in his place.
7 And the melech of Mitzrayim came not again any more
out of his land: for the melech of Bavel had taken all that
belonged to the melech of Mitzrayim, from the river of
Mitzrayim to the River Euphrates.
8 Yahuyahchin was eighteen years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Yahrushalayim three months.
And his eema's name was Nehushta, the daughter of El-
Natan of Yahrushalayim.
9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of vuvh,
according to all that his abba had done.
10 At that time the avadim of Nevuchadnetzar melech of
Bavel came up against Yahrushalayim, and the city was
besieged.
11 And Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel came against
the city, and his avadim did besiege it.
12 And Yahuyahchin the melech of Yahudah went out to
the melech of Bavel, he, and his eema, and his avadim,
and his princes, and his officers: and the melech of Bavel
took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the
Bayit of vuvh, and the treasures of the melech's bayit, and
cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Shlomo melech
of Yisrael had made in the Hekal of vuvh, as vuvh had
said.
14 And he carried away all Yahrushalayim, and all the
princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten
thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none
remained, except the poorest people of the land.
15 And he carried away Yahuyahchin to Bavel, and the
melech's eema, and the melech's wives, and his officers,
and the mighty of the land, those he carried into captivity
from Yahrushalayim to Bavel.
16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and
craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and
fit for war, even these the melech of Bavel brought
captive to Bavel.
17 And the melech of Bavel made Mattanyahu his abba's
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brother melech in his place, and changed his name to
Tsidqiyahu.
18 Tsidqiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yahrushalayim.
And his eema's name was Hamutal, the daughter of
Yirmeyahu of Livnah.
19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of vuvh,
according to all that Yahuyakim had done.
20 For through the anger of vuvh all this came to pass in
Yahrushalayim and Yahudah, until He had cast them out
from His presence. And Tsidqiyahu rebelled against the
melech of Bavel.
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel came, he, and all his
armies, against Yahrushalayim, and camped against it;
and they built forts against it all around.
2 And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of
melech Tsidqiyahu.
3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
prevailed in the city, and there was no lechem for the
people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled
by night by the derech of the gate between two walls,
which is by the melech's gan: now the Chaldeans were
against the city all around it: and the melech went the
derech toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the
melech, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho: and
all his army was scattered from him.
6 So they took the melech, and brought him up to the
melech of Bavel to Rivlah; and they gave mishpat upon
him.
7 And they killed the sons of Tsidqiyahu before his eyes,
and put out the eyes of Tsidqiyahu, and bound him with
fetters of bronze, and carried him to Bavel.
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month,
which is the nineteenth year of melech Nevuchadnetzar
melech of Bavel, came Nevuzaradan, captain of the
guard, an eved of the melech of Bavel, to Yahrushalayim:
9 And he burned the Bayit of vuvh, and the melech's
bayit, and all the houses of Yahrushalayim, and every
great man's bayit he burned with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the
captain of the guard, broke down the walls of
Yahrushalayim all around.
11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city,
and the fugitives that fell away to the melech of Bavel,
with the remnant of the multitude, did Nevuzaradan the
captain of the guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left the poor of the land to
be vinedressers and farmers.
13 And the pillars of bronze that were in the Bayit of
vuvh, and the bases, and the huge bronze laver that was in
the Bayit of vuvh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and
carried their bronze to Bavel.
14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they
ministered, were taken away.
15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as
were of gold, or in gold, and of silver, or in silver, the
captain of the guard took away.
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