II Chronicles 36 · דברי הימים ב

Then the people of the land took Yeho᾽aĥaz the son of Yoshiyyahu, and made him king in his father’s stead in Yerushalayim.

Yeho᾽aĥaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for three months in Yerushalayim.

And the king of Miżrayim deposed him at Yerushalayim and mulcted the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

And the king of Miżrayim made Elyaqim his brother king over Yehuda and Yerushalayim, and turned his name to Yehoyaqim. And Nekho took Yeho᾽aĥaz his brother, and carried him to Miżrayim.

Yehoyaqim was twenty five years old when began to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Yerushalayim: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

Against him came up Nevukhadneżżar king of Bavel, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Bavel.

And Nevukhadneżżar carried some of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Bavel, and put them in his temple at Bavel.

Now the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisra᾽el and Yehuda: and Yehoyakhin his son reigned in his stead.

Yehoyakhin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Yerushalayim: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

And at the return of the year, king Nevukhadneżżar sent, and brought him to Bavel, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Żidqiyyahu his brother king over Yehuda and Yerushalayim.

Żidqiyyahu was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Yerushalayim.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and did not humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.

And he also rebelled against king Nevukhad­neżżar, who had made him swear by God: and he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of Yisra᾽el.

Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much according to all the abominations of the nations; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Yerushalayim.

And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, from morning till night; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord mounted against his people, till there was no remedy.

So he brought upon them the king of the Kasdim, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion either upon young men, or virgins, old men, or feeble: he gave them all into his hand.

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Bavel.

And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its choice vessels.

And those who had escaped from the sword he carried away into exile to Bavel; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Paras:

to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had made good her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, so that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras, that he made a proclamation throughout all of his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Thus says Koresh king of Paras, The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda. Whoever is among you of all his people – the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!