2 Chronicles 36

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz Ibn Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem. ²Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴The king of Egypt made Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. ⁵Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Allah his God. ⁶Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. ⁷Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the house of Allah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. ⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. ⁹Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Allah. ¹⁰At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of Allah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. ¹¹Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: ¹²and he did that which was evil in the sight of Allah his God; he did not humble himself before Armiya the prophet who spoke from the mouth of Allah. ¹³He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Allah, the God of Israel. ¹⁴Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very much after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Allah which he had made holy in Jerusalem. ¹⁵Allah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: ¹⁶but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Allah arose against his people, until there was no remedy. ¹⁷Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. ¹⁸All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Allah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. ¹⁹They burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its beautiful vessels. ²⁰Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: ²¹to fulfill the word of Allah by the mouth of Armiya, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. ²²Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Allah by the mouth of Armiya might be accomplished, Allah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, ²³Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Allah, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Allah his God be with him, and let him go up.