(A)who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.

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14 (A)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, (B)10,000 captives, (C)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, (D)except the poorest people of the land. 15 (E)And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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The Good Figs and the Bad Figs

24 (A)After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem (B)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with (C)the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, (D)two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.

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20 He (A)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, (B)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

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So Jehoiakim (A)slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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24 (A)“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were (B)the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

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(A)Jehoiachin was eighteen[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 10 In (B)the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, (C)with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother (D)Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:9 Septuagint (compare 2 Kings 24:8); most Hebrew manuscripts eight

28 Is this man (A)Coniah a despised, broken pot,
    a (B)vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
    into a (C)land that they do not know?

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