(A)Jehoiachin was [a]eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Captivity in Babylon Begun

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:9 As in LXX and some Heb mss; MT eight years

Jechoiachin’s Reign; Nebuchadnezzar’s Second Capture of Jerusalem

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem, all the while doing what the Lord considered to be evil. 10 At the beginning of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, along with valuable articles from the Lord’s Temple, and he installed Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah as king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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