2 Kings 24:1

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Babylon Controls Jehoiakim

24 ^(A)In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and revolted against him.

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2 Kings 24:1 in all English translations

2 Kings 24:10-12

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Deportation to Babylon

¹⁰At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. ¹¹And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. ¹²Then ^(A)Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials. And ^(B)the king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign.

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2 Kings 25:1-7

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Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem

25 ^(A)Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and ^(C)built a siege wall all around ^[a]it. ²So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(D)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. ⁴^(E)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside ^(F)the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ^[b]they went by way of the Arabah. ⁵But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. ⁶Then ^(G)they captured the king and ^(H)brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(I)Riblah, and he ^[c]passed sentence on him. ⁷And ^(J)they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ^(K)put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.