1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz…
2Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began…
3The king of Egypt removed him from office…
4The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother…
5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began…
6Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him,…
7Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of…
8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim,…
9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began…
10At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar…
11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began…
12He did that which was evil in the…
13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had…
14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and…
15The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent…
16but they mocked the messengers of God, despised…
17Therefore he brought on them the king of…
18All the vessels of God’s house, great and…
19They burned God’s house, broke down the wall…
20He carried those who had escaped from the…
21to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth,…
22Now in the first year of Cyrus king…
23“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the…
