2 Chronicles 36:9-10
New English Translation
Jehoiachin’s Reign
9 Jehoiachin was eighteen[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of[b] the Lord. 10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought[c] to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin’s relative[d] Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:9 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח (ʾakh) here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
2 Chronicles 36:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A) 10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.(B)
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