1In his days Nebukadnetsar King of Babel went up against Jerusalem, and Yoiqim was a Servant to him for three years, and he turned and he rebelled against him. 2And LORD JEHOVAH provoked bands of robbers of the Chaldeans against him, and robbers of Edom, and robbers of Moab, and robbers of the children of Amon, and he provoked them against Yehuda to destroy them, according to the word of LORD JEHOVAH that he spoke by the agency of his Servants the Prophets from the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH. 3And there was great wrath against Yehuda, that he would remove them from before him, because of the sins of Menashe and everything that he did, 4Also the innocent blood that he shed; and innocent blood filled Jerusalem, and LORD JEHOVAH was unwilling to forgive. 5And the rest of the words of Yoiqim and everything that he did, behold, they are written in the book of The Chronicles of the Kings of Yehuda.

6And Yoiqim fell asleep with his parents, and Yuyaqin his son became king after him. 7And the King of Egypt did not go out again from his land, because the King of Babel had taken everything that the King of Egypt had, from the River of Egypt and unto the River Euphrates.

8Yuyaqin was a son of eighteen years when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Nekheshta, daughter of Elithan, from Jerusalem. 9And he did evil before LORD JEHOVAH as his father did.

10At that time Nebukadnetsar King of Babel went up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged in the siege. 11And Nebukadnetsar King of Babel came upon the land, and his Servants were encamping against the city. 12And Yuyaqin King of Yehuda went out to the King of Babel, he and his mother, and his Servants, and his Princes, and his Eunuchs, and the King of Babel took him with him in the eighth year of his kingdom. 13And he brought out from there all the treasure of the house of LORD JEHOVAH, and the treasure of the house of the King, and he cut apart all the vessels of gold that Solomon King of Israel had made for the house of LORD JEHOVAH, as LORD JEHOVAH had said. 14And he led all Jerusalem captive, and all the Princes, and all ten thousand mighty men of the army into captivity, and all the Guards, and all the Runners, and he left none except the poor of the people of the land.

15And he led Yuyaqin captive to Babel, and the mother of the King, and the wives of the King and his Eunuchs, and the Princes of the land, and he took them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babel. 16And all seven thousand mighty men, and the Guards and the one thousand Runners and all men who were workers of war, the King of Babel brought them into the captivity to Babel.

17And the King of Babel made Metanya his paternal uncle king in his place, and he named his name Tsedeqia.

18Tsedeqia was a son of twenty and one years when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Khamatul, daughter of Jeremiah, from Lebna. 19And he did evil before LORD JEHOVAH as did Yoiqim. 20And the anger of LORD JEHOVAH was upon Yehuda and upon Jerusalem until he drove them out from before him, and Tsedeqia rebelled against the King of Babel.