5. As for the other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
6. Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.
7. The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
9. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father had done.
10. At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,
11. and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.