The .xxxvi. Chapter.
1 After Iosia raigneth Iehoahaz. 4 After Iehoahaz Iehoiacim. 8 After hym Iehoiacin. 11 After him Zedekia, 14. 17. in whose time all the people were caried away to Babylon, for contemning the admonitions of the prophetes. 22 And were restored againe the seuentith yere after, by king Cyrus.
[unspec A] 1 ANd * 1.1 the people of the lande toke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosia, and made hym king in his fathers steade in Hie∣rusalem.
2 And Iehoahaz was twentie & three yeres olde when he be∣gan to raigne, and he raigned three monethes in Hierusalem.
3 And the king of Egypt put him downe at Hierusalem, “ 1.2 and merced the lande in an hundreth talentes of siluer, and a ta∣lent of golde.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king vpon Iuda and Hieru∣salem, and turned his name to Iehoia∣cim: and Necho toke Iehoahaz his bro∣ther, and caried him to Egypt.
5 Iehoiacim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to raigne, & he raig∣ned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem, and he did euil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 Against him came vp Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and bounde hym with two chaynes, to cary him to Babylon.
7 The king * 1.3 Nabuchodonosor also caried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to [unspec B] Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 The rest of the actes of Iehoiacim, and his abhominations which he did, (a) 1.4 and that which was found vpon him, behold they are written in the booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda: and Iehoi∣acin his sonne raigned in his steade.
9 And Iehoiacin was eyght yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raig∣ned three monethes and ten dayes in Hierusalem, and dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde.
10 And when the yere was out, king Na∣buchodonosor sent and fet him to Baby∣lon with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lorde, and made Zedekia his fa∣thers brother king ouer Iuda and Hie∣rusalem.
11 * 1.5Zedekia was one and twentie yeres old when he began the raigne, and raig∣ned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem.
12 And he dyd euyl in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not him selfe be∣fore Ieremia the prophete, at the mouth of the Lorde.