Douay Rheims Original ↷
2 Kings 24 📜 📕 ↷
8 Eighteen years old was Joachin when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.📜💬📚
9 And he did evil before our Lord, according to all things which his father had done.📜💬📚
Captivity of Jerusalem
10 And that time came up the servants of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon into Jerusalem, & the city was compassed with forts.📜💬📚
11 And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came to the city with his servants to assault it.📜💬📚
12 And Joachin the king of Juda went forth to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him the eight year of his reign.📜💬📚
13 And he brought forth from thence all the treasures of the house of our Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: & he cut in pieces all the golden vessels, which Salomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of our Lord, according to the word of our Lord.📜💬📚
14 And he transported all Jerusalem, & all the Princes, and all the strong men of the army, ten thousand into captivity and every artificer & incloser: and nothing was left, saving the poor sort of the people of the land.📜💬📚
15 He transported also Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he led into captivity from Jerusalem into Babylon.📜💬📚
16 And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and inclosers a thousand, all valiant men and warriors: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.📜💬📚
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