^12 (A)Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials. So ^(B)the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. ^13 (C)And he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house, and ^(D)cut in pieces all the vessels of gold ^(E)which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had spoken. ¹⁴ Then ^(F)he took away into exile all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the mighty men of valor, ^(G)10,000 captives, and ^(H)all the craftsmen and the smiths. None was left ^(I)except the poorest people of the land.

¹⁵ So ^(J)he took Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. ¹⁶ Now all the valiant men, ^(K)seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all mighty men who could wage war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

Jehoiachin Reigns over Judah

^9 (A)Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh. ^10 (B)And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of Yahweh, and he made his relative ^(C)Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁴ “As I live,” declares Yahweh, “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; ²⁵ and I will ^(C)give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, indeed, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ I will ^(D)hurl you and your ^(E)mother who bore you into another land—there you were not born, but there you will die. ²⁷ But as for the land to which their soul desires to return, they will not return to it.

The Good and the Rotten Figs

24 After ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away into exile 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, Yahweh showed me: behold, two ^(B)baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh!

²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he ^(A)carried away into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.