1 In sy dae het Nebukadn,sar, die koning van Babel, opgetrek, en Jojakim het drie jaar lank sy dienaar geword; daarna het hy weer teen hom gerebelleer.

2 Toe stuur die HERE die bendes van die Chaldeërs teen hom en die bendes van die Arameërs en die bendes van die Moabiete en die bendes van die kinders van Ammon -- Hy stuur hulle teen Juda om dit te verdelg volgens die woord van die HERE wat hy gespreek het deur die diens van sy knegte, die profete.

3 Sekerlik het dit volgens die bevel van die HERE oor Juda gekom, om hulle van sy aangesig te verwyder vanweë die sondes van Manasse, volgens alles wat hy gedoen het;

4 en ook oor die onskuldige bloed wat hy vergiet het, sodat hy Jerusalem met onskuldige bloed gevul het; daarom wou die HERE nie vergewe nie.

5 En die verdere geskiedenis van Jojakim en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?

6 En Jojakim het ontslaap met sy vaders, en sy seun Jojagin het in sy plek koning geword.

7 En die koning van Egipte het nie verder meer uit sy land uitgetrek nie, want die koning van Babel het van die spruit van Egipte af tot by die Eufraatrivier alles geneem wat aan die koning van Egipte behoort het.

8 Agttien jaar was Jojagin oud toe hy koning geword het, en hy het drie maande in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Nehusta, 'n dogter van lnatan, van Jerusalem.

9 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE net soos sy vader gedoen het.

10 In die tyd het die dienaars van Nebukadn,sar, die koning van Babel, na Jerusalem opgetrek en die stad is beleër.

11 En toe Nebukadn,sar, die koning van Babel, by die stad kom, terwyl sy dienaars dit beleër,

12 het Jojagin, die koning van Juda, uitgegaan na die koning van Babel, hy en sy moeder en sy dienaars en sy owerstes en sy hofdienaars, en die koning van Babel het hom gevange geneem in die agtste jaar van sy regering.

13 En hy het daarvandaan uitgebring al die skatte van die huis van die HERE en die skatte van die huis van die koning en al die goud van die voorwerpe afgesny wat Salomo, die koning van Israel, gemaak het in die tempel van die HERE, soos die HERE gespreek het.

14 En hy het die hele Jerusalem weggevoer en al die owerstes en al die mense van vermoë, tien duisend ballinge, en al die smede en die slotmakers; niemand het oorgebly nie, behalwe die arm mense van die land.

15 En hy het Jojagin in ballingskap weggevoer na Babel, en ook die moeder van die koning en die vroue van die koning en sy hofdienaars; ook die magtiges van die land het hy in ballingskap uit Jerusalem na Babel laat gaan.

16 En al die mense van vermoë, sewe duisend, en die smede en die slotmakers, duisend, almal helde wat oorlog kan voer -- die het die koning van Babel in ballingskap na Babel gebring.

17 En die koning van Babel het Matt nja, die oom van Jojagin, in sy plek koning gemaak en sy naam verander in Sedek¡a.

18 Een en twintig jaar was Sedek¡a oud toe hy koning geword het, en hy het elf jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Hamutal, 'n dogter van Jerem¡a, uit Libna.

19 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE net soos Jojakim gedoen het.

20 Want weens die toorn van die HERE het dit oor Jerusalem en Juda gekom, totdat Hy hulle van sy aangesig weggewerp het. En Sedek¡a het teen die koning van Babel gerebelleer.

1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.

2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

6 So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

7 And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.

10 At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.

11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;

12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.

17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.

18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

20 And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.