¹⁸ ‘And ^(A)they shall take away some of your sons who will ^[a]descend from you, whom you will beget; ^(B)and they shall be ^(C)eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

^11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with ^[a]hooks, ^(B)bound him with ^[b]bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.

^12 (A)Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, ^(B)in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

³ Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring ^(A)some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles,

⁶ So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon ^(A)at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.