³⁰ Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim^(A) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out^(B) and exposed^(C) to the heat by day and the frost by night.^(D)

¹² Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered^(A) to him.

In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. ¹³ As the Lord had declared,^(B) Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures^(C) from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles^(D) that Solomon^(E) king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord. ¹⁴ He carried all Jerusalem into exile:^(F) all the officers and fighting men,^(G) and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest^(H) people of the land were left.

¹⁵ Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin^(I) captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother,^(J) his wives, his officials and the prominent people^(K) of the land.

¹⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

⁴⁰ This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.^(A)