1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 ¶ Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 ¶ Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 ¶ Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
14 ¶ Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. 18 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 Babylon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 ¶ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
1 tulit ergo populus terrae Ioachaz filium Iosiae
et constituit regem pro patre suo in Hierusalem
2 viginti trium annorum erat Ioachaz cum regnare coepisset
et tribus mensibus regnavit in Hierusalem
3 amovit autem eum rex Aegypti cum venisset Hierusalem
et condemnavit terram centum talentis argenti et talento auri
4 constituitque regem pro eo Eliacim fratrem eius
super Iudam et Hierusalem
et vertit nomen eius Ioacim
ipsum vero Ioachaz tulit secum
et adduxit in Aegyptum
5 viginti quinque annorum erat Ioacim cum regnare coepisset
et undecim annis regnavit in Hierusalem
fecitque malum coram Domino Deo suo
6 contra hunc ascendit Nabuchodonosor rex Chaldeorum
et vinctum catenis duxit in Babylonem
7 ad quam et vasa Domini transtulit et posuit ea in templo suo
8 reliqua autem verborum Ioacim
et abominationum eius quas operatus est et quae inventa
sunt in eo
continentur in libro regum Israhel et Iuda
regnavitque Ioachin filius eius pro eo
9 octo annorum erat Ioachin cum regnare
coepisset
et tribus mensibus ac decem diebus regnavit in Hierusalem
fecitque malum in conspectu Domini
10 cumque anni circulus volveretur misit Nabuchodonosor rex
qui et adduxerunt eum in Babylonem
asportatis simul pretiosissimis vasis domus Domini
regem vero constituit Sedeciam fratrem eius
super Iudam et Hierusalem
11 viginti et unius anni erat Sedecias cum regnare coepisset
et undecim annis regnavit in Hierusalem
12 fecitque malum in oculis Domini Dei sui
nec erubuit faciem Hieremiae prophetae loquentis ad se ex ore Domini
13 a rege quoque Nabuchodonosor recessit
qui adiuraverat eum per Deum
et induravit cervicem suam et cor
ut non reverteretur ad Dominum Deum Israhel
14 sed et universi principes sacerdotum et populus praevaricati sunt inique
iuxta universas abominationes gentium
et polluerunt domum Domini quam sanctificaverat sibi in Hierusalem
15 mittebat autem Dominus Deus patrum suorum ad illos
per manum nuntiorum suorum
de nocte consurgens et cotidie commonens
eo quod parceret populo et habitaculo suo
16 at illi subsannabant nuntios Dei
et parvipendebant sermones eius inludebantque prophetis
donec ascenderet furor Domini in populum eius
et esset nulla curatio
17 adduxit enim super eos regem Chaldeorum
et interfecit iuvenes eorum gladio in domo sanctuarii sui
non est misertus adulescentis et virginis et senis nec
decrepiti quidem
sed omnes tradidit manibus eius
18 universaque vasa domus Domini tam maiora quam minora
et thesauros templi et regis et principum transtulit in Babylonem
19 incenderunt hostes domum Dei
destruxerunt murum Hierusalem
universas turres conbuserunt
et quicquid pretiosum fuerat demoliti sunt
20 si quis evaserat gladium
ductus in Babylonem servivit regi et filiis eius
donec imperaret rex Persarum
21 et conpleretur sermo Domini ex ore Hieremiae
et celebraret terra sabbata sua
cunctis enim diebus desolationis egit sabbatum
usque dum conplerentur septuaginta anni
22 anno autem primo Cyri regis Persarum
ad explendum sermonem Domini
quem locutus fuerat per os Hieremiae
suscitavit Dominus spiritum Cyri regis Persarum
qui iussit praedicari in universo regno suo etiam per scripturam dicens
23 haec dicit Cyrus rex Persarum
omnia regna terrae dedit mihi Dominus Deus caeli
et ipse praecepit mihi
ut aedificarem ei domum in Hierusalem quae est in Iudaea
quis ex vobis est in omni populo eius
sit Dominus Deus suus cum eo et ascendat
EXPLICIT LIBER DABREIAMINID EST VERBA DEIRUM