^12 (A)Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So ^(B)the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

¹⁶ The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

^9 (A)Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Captivity in Babylon Begun

^10 (B)At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the Lord, and he made his kinsman ^(C)Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁴ “As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though ^[a](A)Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a ^(B)signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull ^[b]you ^[c]off;

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

24 After ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two ^(B)baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord!

^31 (A)Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that ^[a]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, ^[b](B)showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.