1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and they appointed him king in place of his father, in Jerusalem.stylusJeremiah 22:11, Jeremiah 22:11, 2 Kings 23:30, 2 Kings 23:37, 1 Chronicles 3:152Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.stylus3Then the king of Egypt, when he had arrived in Jerusalem, removed him, and condemned the land to one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.stylus2 Kings 23:33, 2 Kings 23:334And he appointed Eliakim, his brother, as king in his place, over Judah and Jerusalem. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Truly, he took Jehoahaz with him, and he led him away to Egypt.stylusJeremiah 22:10, Jeremiah 22:12, Jeremiah 22:10, Jeremiah 22:12, Ezekiel 19:35Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil before the Lord his God.stylus2 Kings 23:36, 2 Kings 23:37, 2 Kings 23:36, 2 Kings 23:37, Jeremiah 26:16Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, ascended against him, and led him bound in chains to Babylon.stylus2 Chronicles 33:11, 2 Chronicles 33:11, Daniel 1:1, Daniel 1:2, 2 Kings 24:17And to there, he also took away the vessels of the Lord, and he placed them in his temple.stylus2 Kings 24:13, 2 Kings 24:13, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:4, Ezra 1:78But the rest of the words of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he worked, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then his son, Jehoiachin, reigned in his place.stylus2 Kings 24:5, 2 Kings 24:6, 2 Kings 24:5, 2 Kings 24:6, Matthew 1:119Jehoiachin was eight years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.stylus2 Kings 24:8, 2 Kings 24:17, 2 Kings 24:8, 2 Kings 24:1710And when the course of a year had turned, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, carrying away, at the same time, the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord. Truly, he appointed his uncle, Zedekiah, as king over Judah and Jerusalem.stylusJeremiah 37:1, Jeremiah 37:1, 2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Chronicles 36:7, Ezekiel 1:211Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.stylus2 Kings 24:18, 2 Kings 24:20, 2 Kings 24:18, 2 Kings 24:20, Jeremiah 28:112And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. And he did not show remorse before the face of the prophet Jeremiah, who was speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord.stylus2 Chronicles 33:23, 2 Chronicles 33:23, Jeremiah 37:2, Jeremiah 37:21, Jeremiah 38:1413Also, he withdrew from king Nebuchadnezzar, who had bound him by an oath to God, and he hardened his own neck and his own heart, so that he did not return to the Lord, the God of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 30:8, Ezekiel 17:11, Ezekiel 17:20, 2 Chronicles 30:8, Ezekiel 17:1114Then too, all the leaders of the priests, with the people, transgressed iniquitously, in accord with all the abominations of the Gentiles. And they polluted the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.stylusDaniel 9:8, Daniel 9:8, Micah 7:2, Ezra 9:7, Jeremiah 5:515Then the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising in the night and daily admonishing them. For he was lenient to his people and to his habitation.stylusJeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 35:15, Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 35:15, Jeremiah 25:316But they ridiculed the messengers of God, and they gave little weight to his words, and they mocked the prophets, until the fury of the Lord ascended against his people, and there was no remedy.stylusJeremiah 5:12, Jeremiah 5:13, Jeremiah 5:12, Jeremiah 5:13, Luke 22:6317For he led over them the king of the Chaldeans. And he put to death their young men by the sword, in the house of his sanctuary. There was no pity for adolescents, nor virgins, nor the elderly, nor even for the disabled. Instead, he delivered them all into his hands.stylusPsalms 74:20, Ezra 9:7, Psalms 74:20, Ezra 9:7, Jeremiah 40:318And all the vessels of the house of Lord, as much the greater as the lesser, and the treasures of the temple, and of the king and the rulers, he carried away to Babylon.stylus2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Kings 20:1319The enemies set fire to the house of God, and they destroyed the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the towers. And whatever was precious, they demolished.stylusPsalms 79:1, Psalms 79:1, Isaiah 64:10, Isaiah 64:11, Luke 21:620If anyone had escaped from the sword, he was led into Babylon. And he served the king and his sons, until the king of Persia would command,stylusJeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 27:7, Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:11, 2 Kings 25:1121and the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah would be fulfilled, and the land would celebrate her Sabbaths. For during all the days of the desolation, she kept a Sabbath, until the seventy years were completed.stylusJeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Leviticus 26:34, Leviticus 26:35, Leviticus 26:3422Then, in the first year of Cyrus, the king of the Persians, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, the king of the Persians, who commanded this to be proclaimed throughout his entire kingdom, and also in writing, saying:stylusJeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:12, Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:3, Ezra 1:123“Thus says Cyrus, the king of the Persians: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he has instructed me that I should build for him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea. Who among you is from his entire people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him ascend.”stylusDaniel 5:23, Daniel 2:21, Psalms 75:5, Psalms 75:7, Daniel 2:37