^18 (A)And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, ^(B)and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

^11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and ^(B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

^12 (A)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(B)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(C)in the eighth year of his reign

³ Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, ^(A)his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family^[a] and of ^(B)the nobility,

⁶ Then they captured the king ^(A)and brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(B)Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.