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Bible Verses About Jehoiachin

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  1. And Jehoiakim lieth with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigneth in his stead.

  2. And the king of Egypt hath not added any more to go out from his own land, for the king of Babylon hath taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Phrat, all that had been to the king of Egypt.

  3. A son of eighteen years is Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem,

  4. At that time come up have servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city goeth into siege,

  5. and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon cometh against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it,

  6. and Jehoiachin king of Judah goeth out unto the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his eunuchs, and the king of Babylon taketh him in the eighth year of his reign,

  7. and bringeth out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cutteth in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken.

  8. And he hath removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty ones of valour--ten thousand is the removal--and every artificer and smith, none hath been left save the poor of the people of the land.

  9. And he removeth Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land--he hath caused a removal to go from Jerusalem to Babylon,

  10. and all the men of valour seven thousand, and the artificers and the smiths a thousand, the whole are mighty men, warriors; and the king of Babylon bringeth them in a captivity to Babylon.

  11. And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,

  12. and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon,

  13. and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,

  14. and his allowance--a continual allowance--hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.

  15. And sons of Jeconiah: Assir; Salathiel his son;

  16. also Malchiram and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

  17. And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he hath done, and that which is found against him, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, and reign doth Jehoiachin his son in his stead.

  18. A son of eight years is Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months and ten days he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

  19. I live--an affirmation of Jehovah, Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand, Surely thence I draw thee away,

  20. And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.

  21. And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die.

  22. And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.

  23. A grief--a despised broken thing--is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

  24. Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of Jehovah,

  25. Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man--he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!