Recounting Israel's Journey

33 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. ² Moses wrote down their starting places, ^(A)stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places. ³ They ^(B)set out from Rameses in ^(C)the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out ^(D)triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, ⁴ while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, ^(E)whom the Lord had struck down among them. ^(F)On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.

⁵ So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at ^(G)Succoth. ⁶ And they set out from Succoth and camped at ^(H)Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷ And they set out from Etham and turned back to ^(I)Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. ⁸ And they set out from before Hahiroth^[a] and ^(J)passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they ^(K)went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. ⁹ And they set out from Marah and came to ^(L)Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. ¹⁰ And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea. ¹¹ And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in ^(M)the wilderness of Sin. ¹² And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah. ¹³ And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. ¹⁴ And they set out from Alush and camped at ^(N)Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵ And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the ^(O)wilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶ And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at ^(P)Kibroth-hattaavah. ¹⁷ And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at ^(Q)Hazeroth. ¹⁸ And they ^(R)set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. ¹⁹ And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez. ²⁰ And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah. ²¹ And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. ²² And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. ²³ And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. ²⁴ And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. ²⁵ And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. ²⁶ And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. ²⁷ And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. ²⁸ And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah. ²⁹ And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. ³⁰ And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. ³¹ And they set out from Moseroth and camped at ^(S)Bene-jaakan. ³² And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at ^(T)Hor-haggidgad. ³³ And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at ^(U)Jotbathah. ³⁴ And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. ³⁵ And they set out from Abronah and camped at ^(V)Ezion-geber. ³⁶ And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the ^(W)wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). ³⁷ And they set out from ^(X)Kadesh and camped at ^(Y)Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸ And Aaron the priest went up ^(Z)Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹ And Aaron was ^(AA)123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰ And ^(AB)the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

⁴¹ And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. ⁴² And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. ⁴³ And they set out from Punon and camped at ^(AC)Oboth. ⁴⁴ And they set out from Oboth and camped at ^(AD)Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab. ⁴⁵ And they set out from Iyim and camped at ^(AE)Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶ And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. ⁴⁷ And they set out from Almon-diblathaim ^(AF)and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. ⁴⁸ And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in ^(AG)the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; ⁴⁹ they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as ^(AH)Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Drive Out the Inhabitants

⁵⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁵¹ “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(AI)When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵² then ^(AJ)you shall drive out ^(AK)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their ^(AL)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. ⁵³ And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. ^54 (AM)You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. ^(AN)To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. ⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as ^(AO)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶ And I will do to you ^(AP)as I thought to do to them.”

Let Everything Praise the Lord

24 ^(A)In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. ² And the Lord sent against him bands of the ^(B)Chaldeans and ^(C)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^(D)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets. ³ Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, ^(E)for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, ⁴ and also ^(F)for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. ^5 (G)Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ⁶ So Jehoiakim ^(H)slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. ^7 (I)And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, ^(J)for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt ^(K)from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah

^8 (L)Jehoiachin was ^(M)eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. ⁹ And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(N)according to all that his father had done.

Jerusalem Captured

¹⁰ At that time the servants of ^(O)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. ¹¹ And ^(P)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, ^12 (Q)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(R)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(S)in the eighth year of his reign ¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(T)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(U)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(V)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(W)as the Lord had foretold. ^14 (X)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^(Y)10,000 captives, ^(Z)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ^(AA)except the poorest people of the land. ^15 (AB)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. ¹⁶ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, ^(AC)7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. ^17 (AD)And the king of Babylon ^(AE)made Mattaniah, ^(AF)Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, ^(AG)and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

^18 (AH)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was ^(AI)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ¹⁹ And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(AJ)according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ²⁰ For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.

^(AK)And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.