7. Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the treasures from the Temple of the lord, and he placed them in his palace in Babylon.
8. The rest of the events in Jehoiakim’s reign, including all the evil things he did and everything found against him, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Then his son Jehoiachin became the next king.
9. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. Jehoiachin did what was evil in the lord’s sight.
10. In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon. Many treasures from the Temple of the lord were also taken to Babylon at that time. And Nebuchadnezzar installed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, as the next king in Judah and Jerusalem.
11. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
12. But Zedekiah did what was evil in the sight of the lord his God, and he refused to humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah spoke to him directly from the lord.
13. He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, even though he had taken an oath of loyalty in God’s name. Zedekiah was a hard and stubborn man, refusing to turn to the lord, the God of Israel.
14. Likewise, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed all the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the lord that had been consecrated in Jerusalem.