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Bible Verses About Jehoiachin

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  1. So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

  2. The king of Egypt didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

  3. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

  4. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

  5. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

  6. and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

  7. He carried out there all the treasures of the LORD’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD had said.

  8. He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; no one remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

  9. He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  10. All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

  11. In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

  12. and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

  13. and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

  14. and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

  15. The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,

  16. and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

  17. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

  18. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

  19. As I live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;

  20. and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Kasdim.

  21. I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

  22. But to the land t which their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

  23. Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which no one delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don’t know?

  24. O earth, earth, earth, hear the LORD’s word.

  25. Thus says the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.