1 Durante o reinado de Joaquim, Nabucodonosor, rei de Babilônia, subiu contra Joaquim, que se tornou seu vassalo por três anos. Depois revoltou-se contra ele.
2 O Senhor mandou contra ele os bandos dos caldeus, dos sírios, dos moabitas e dos amonitas, e lançou-os contra Judá para o destruírem, conforme ele havia anunciado pela boca dos profetas, seus servos.
3 Isso aconteceu realmente por ordem do Senhor, para afastá-lo de sua presença, por causa dos pecados cometidos por Manassés,
4 e por causa do sangue inocente que ele tinha derramado, chegando a inundar Jerusalém de sangue inocente. E o Senhor não quis perdoar.
5 O resto da história de Joaquim, seus atos e grandes feitos, tudo se acha consignado no livro das Crônicas dos reis de Judá.
6 Joaquim adormeceu com seus pais e seu filho Joaquin sucedeu-lhe no trono.
7 O rei do Egito cessou então suas expedições fora de sua terra, porque o rei de Babilônia se tinha apoderado de todas as possessões do rei do Egito, desde a torrente do Egito até o Eufrates.
8 Joaquin tinha dezoito anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante três meses em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Noesta, filha de Elnatã, e era natural de Jerusalém.
9 Fez o mal aos olhos do Senhor, como o tinha feito seu pai.
10 Foi nesse tempo que vieram os homens de Nabucodonosor, rei de Babilônia, contra Jerusalém, e sitiaram-na.
11 Depois, Nabucodonosor veio pessoalmente diante da cidade, enquanto suas tropas a sitiavam.
12 Joaquin, rei de Judá, foi ter com o rei de Babilônia, ele e sua mãe, suas tropas, seus oficiais e seus eunucos; e o rei de Babilônia o prendeu. Isso foi no oitavo ano de seu reinado.
13 E como o Senhor tinha anunciado, levou dali todos os tesouros do templo do Senhor e do palácio real, e quebrou todos os objetos de ouro que Salomão, rei de Israel, tinha feito para o santuário do Senhor.
14 Levou para o cativeiro toda a Jerusalém, todos os chefes e todos os homens de valor, ao todo dez mil, com todos os ferreiros e artífices; só deixou os pobres.
15 Deportou Joaquin para Babilônia, com sua mãe, suas mulheres, os eunucos do rei e os grandes da terra.
16 Todos os homens de valor, em número de sete mil, os ferreiros e os artífices, em número de mil, e todos os homens aptos para a guerra, o rei de Babilônia os deportou para Babilônia.
17 Em lugar de Joaquin, o rei de Babilônia constituiu rei seu tio Matanias, cujo nome mudou para Sedecias.
18 Sedecias tinha vinte e um anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante onze anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Amital, filha de Jeremias, e era natural de Lobna.
19 Fez o mal aos olhos do Senhor como o tinha feito Joaquin.
20 Assim aconteceu a Jerusalém e a Judá, porque o Senhor queria, em sua cólera, rejeitá-los de sua presença. Sedecias revoltou-se contra o rei de Babilônia.
1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8 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. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 12 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. 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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 temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.