These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 24
Tanakh 20 verses
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In his days of came up, and Jehoiakim became his three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
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- 2 And sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Arameans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against to destroy it, according to the of , which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets.
- 3 Surely at the of came this upon , to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of , according to all that he did;
- 4 and also for the innocent that he shed; for he filled with innocent ; and would not pardon.
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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 ?
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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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And the of came not again any more out of his land; for the of had taken, from the Brook of unto the river , all that pertained to the of .
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in three months; and his mother’s was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of .
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- 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of , according to all that his father had done.
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At that time the servants of of came up to , and the city was besieged.
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- 11 And of came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.
- 12 And Jehoiachin the of went out to the of , he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the of took him in the eighth year of his reign.
- 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of , and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which of had made in the of , as had said.
- 14 And he carried away all , and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, the poorest sort of the people of the land.
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And he carried away Jehoiachin to ; 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 to .
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And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the of brought captive to .
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And the of made Mattaniah his father’s brother in his stead, and changed his to Zedekiah.
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Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in ; and his mother’s was Hamutal the daughter of of Libnah.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of , according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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- 20 For through the anger of did it come to pass in and , until He had cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the of .