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2 Chronicles 36:8-10
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 36:8-10
New English Translation
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.[a] His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
Jehoiachin’s Reign
9 Jehoiachin was eighteen[b] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of[c] the Lord. 10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought[d] to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin’s relative[e] Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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- 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.”
- 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.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח (ʾakh) here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
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