1 Durante o reinado de Joaquim, Nabucodonosor, rei de Babilônia, subiu contra Joaquim, que se tornou seu vassalo por três anos. Depois revoltou-se contra ele.
2 O Senhor mandou contra ele os bandos dos caldeus, dos sírios, dos moabitas e dos amonitas, e lançou-os contra Judá para o destruírem, conforme ele havia anunciado pela boca dos profetas, seus servos.
3 Isso aconteceu realmente por ordem do Senhor, para afastá-lo de sua presença, por causa dos pecados cometidos por Manassés,
4 e por causa do sangue inocente que ele tinha derramado, chegando a inundar Jerusalém de sangue inocente. E o Senhor não quis perdoar.
5 O resto da história de Joaquim, seus atos e grandes feitos, tudo se acha consignado no livro das Crônicas dos reis de Judá.
6 Joaquim adormeceu com seus pais e seu filho Joaquin sucedeu-lhe no trono.
7 O rei do Egito cessou então suas expedições fora de sua terra, porque o rei de Babilônia se tinha apoderado de todas as possessões do rei do Egito, desde a torrente do Egito até o Eufrates.
8 Joaquin tinha dezoito anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante três meses em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Noesta, filha de Elnatã, e era natural de Jerusalém.
9 Fez o mal aos olhos do Senhor, como o tinha feito seu pai.
10 Foi nesse tempo que vieram os homens de Nabucodonosor, rei de Babilônia, contra Jerusalém, e sitiaram-na.
11 Depois, Nabucodonosor veio pessoalmente diante da cidade, enquanto suas tropas a sitiavam.
12 Joaquin, rei de Judá, foi ter com o rei de Babilônia, ele e sua mãe, suas tropas, seus oficiais e seus eunucos; e o rei de Babilônia o prendeu. Isso foi no oitavo ano de seu reinado.
13 E como o Senhor tinha anunciado, levou dali todos os tesouros do templo do Senhor e do palácio real, e quebrou todos os objetos de ouro que Salomão, rei de Israel, tinha feito para o santuário do Senhor.
14 Levou para o cativeiro toda a Jerusalém, todos os chefes e todos os homens de valor, ao todo dez mil, com todos os ferreiros e artífices; só deixou os pobres.
15 Deportou Joaquin para Babilônia, com sua mãe, suas mulheres, os eunucos do rei e os grandes da terra.
16 Todos os homens de valor, em número de sete mil, os ferreiros e os artífices, em número de mil, e todos os homens aptos para a guerra, o rei de Babilônia os deportou para Babilônia.
17 Em lugar de Joaquin, o rei de Babilônia constituiu rei seu tio Matanias, cujo nome mudou para Sedecias.
18 Sedecias tinha vinte e um anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante onze anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Amital, filha de Jeremias, e era natural de Lobna.
19 Fez o mal aos olhos do Senhor como o tinha feito Joaquin.
20 Assim aconteceu a Jerusalém e a Judá, porque o Senhor queria, em sua cólera, rejeitá-los de sua presença. Sedecias revoltou-se contra o rei de Babilônia.
1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;
4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
6 So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
7 And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
10 At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
20 And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.