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2 Chronicles 36:7-9
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7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace[a] there.[b]

8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah.[c] His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

Jehoiachin’s Reign

9 Jehoiachin was eighteen[d] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of[e] the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:7 tn Or “temple.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:7 tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.
  3. 2 Chronicles 36:8 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 36:9 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 36:9 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
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