II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 407

23——37 THE MONARCHICAL PER¥OD.——II. KINGS. 25—··4 37 daughter of Phcriah of Ramah. But he did evil inthe sight of the EVER- LIVING, in all that his ancestors had done. (ac. 607.) iézhultbnhnzggnr ®¤n- qucrs Quhnly. 24 In his time Nebukhadnezzar, king of Babel, advanced, and jhokim was subject to him for three years. Then he turned and rebelled from him. (B.c. 603.) But the EvER—L1v1NG sent against

him the troops of the Kasidim, and the troops of Aram, and the troops of Moab, and the troops of the Amon- ites,. whom he sent against Judah to destroy it, because it was the EVER- L1v1NG’s intention against judah to turn it from His presence, for the sin of Manasheh in all that he did, and also for the innocent blood that he shed, filling jerusalem with innocent blood, which the EvaR—1.1v1Ns·was not willing to forgive. As regards the other aHairs of

jhokim, and all that he did, they are written in the history of events during the times of the kings of judah. But jhokim slept with his fathers, and jhoikin his son reigned after him. And the king of Egypt did not again come out from his country, for the king of Babel seized from the River of Egypt to the River Frath,1 all of which had previously belonged to the king of Mitzer. (nc. 599.) Jlyniahim mane gdnmiimi §in;3 uf iuhab bg a iiztmit. jhoiakim was nineteen years old at

his coronation, and he reigned three months in ]erusalern; and his mother’s name was Nakhshetha, the daughter of Alnathan of jerusalem. He, however, did wrong in the sight

of the Evmz·1.1vmo, in everything as his ancestors had done. .c. 599.) £.2kukbahnz;;ar abhaxuzes against him mth Eupturzs bmnalzm. ro At this period the Omcers of Nebu- khadnezzar, king of Babel, advanced to jerusalem, and came to besiege

11 the city. Nebukhadnezzar, king of Babel, also came to the city while

r2 his Ofhcers were besieging it, when 1 Euphrates jhoiakim capitulated to the king of Babel, himself, his mother, his mini- sters and generals, and eunuchs. Thus the king of Babel captured him in the eighth year of his reign. He also took away all the treasure from the House of the EVER-LIVING, and the treasures from the palace of the king, and collected the gold and fur- niture of gold that Solomon, king of Israel, had made for the Temple of the Evan-Livme, bythe command of the EVER-LIVING, and transported all jerusalem, and all its nobles, and the whole of the omcers of the army, ten thousand, as captives, with all the carpenters and mechanics. He left none except the lower class of the country. Healsotransportedjhoiakim to Babel, with the king’s mother and wives, and his eunuchs, together with the Princes of the country, whom he carried captive from jerusalem to Babel. Beside which the king of Babel made Mattaniah, his uncle, king in his place, but changed his name to Zedekiah. 16

(n. c. 590.) Zzhzkinly mah: ®¤lrzrxwr nf Quhab by £21ruhlyahnzggar. Zedekiah was twenty-one years of

age at his coronation, and reigned eleven years at jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hamutal, daugh- ter of jeremiah of Libnah. But he did evil in the sight of the EVER- LIVING in everything that jhoiakim had done, because the anger of the EVER-Lxv1NG was against jerusalem and judah to throw them from His Presence, —·— therefore Zedekiah re- volted from the king of Babel. 18 zo (ac. 588.) Zzhckiab Bztwlts, but £21ruklyubn2;gar crushes him. In consequence, in the ninth year, 25 on the tenth of the tenth month, Nebukhadnezzar, king of Babel, came with all his forces to jerusalem, and encamped against it, and they built a surrounding wall against it, and the siege of the city went on to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. At the ninth month the famine became terrible in the city, and there was no bread for the people of thecountry, so he burst from the city with a force of soldiers by night, by way of the wall which is towards the Royal Garden, although the Kasidim were around the city, and marched towards 407