^17 (A)a time is coming when everything in your palace, everything that your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be carried off to Babylonia. Nothing will be left. ^18 (B)Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”

^10 (A)When spring came, King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner and carried off the treasures of the Temple. Then Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle^[a] Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.

^7 (A)Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”

⁸ King Hezekiah understood this to mean that there would be peace and security during his lifetime, so he replied, “The message you have given me from the Lord is good.”