2 Chronicles 36
1 and to take: take people [the] land: country/planet [obj] Jehoahaz son: child Josiah and to reign him underneath: instead father his in/on/with Jerusalem
The people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in succession to his father.
2 son: aged three and twenty year Jehoahaz in/on/with to reign he and three month to reign in/on/with Jerusalem
Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.
3 and to turn aside: remove him king Egypt in/on/with Jerusalem and to fine [obj] [the] land: country/planet hundred talent silver: money and talent gold
Then the king of Egypt removed him from the throne in Jerusalem and imposed a tax on Judah of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 and to reign king Egypt [obj] Eliakim brother: male-sibling his upon Judah and Jerusalem and to turn: changed [obj] name his Jehoiakim and [obj] Jehoahaz brother: male-sibling his to take: take Neco and to come (in): bring him Egypt [to]
Neco, king of Egypt, made Eliakim, Jehoahaz's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz back with him to Egypt.
5 son: aged twenty and five year Jehoiakim in/on/with to reign he and one ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD God his
Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 upon him to ascend: rise Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon and to bind him in/on/with bronze to/for to go: take him Babylon [to]
Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jehoiakim. He captured him and put bronze shackles on him, and brought him to Babylon.
7 and from article/utensil house: temple LORD to come (in): bring Nebuchadnezzar to/for Babylon and to give: put them in/on/with temple: palace his in/on/with Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar also took some items from the Lord's Temple, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
8 and remainder word: deed Jehoiakim and abomination his which to make: do and [the] to find upon him look! they to write upon scroll: book king Israel and Judah and to reign Jehoiachin son: child his underneath: instead him
The rest of what Jehoiakim, the disgusting sins he committed, and all the evidence against him, are written down in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiachin took over as king.
9 son: aged eight year Jehoiachin in/on/with to reign he and three month and ten day to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD
Jehoiachin was eighteen when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months and ten days. He did evil in the Lord's sight.
10 and to/for turn [the] year to send: depart [the] king Nebuchadnezzar and to come (in): bring him Babylon [to] with article/utensil desire house: temple LORD and to reign [obj] Zedekiah brother: male-sibling his upon Judah and Jerusalem
In the spring of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and brought him to Babylon, along with valuable items from the Lord's Temple, and he made Jehoiachin's uncle Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 son: aged twenty and one year Zedekiah in/on/with to reign he and one ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem
Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years.
12 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD God his not be humble from to/for face: before Jeremiah [the] prophet from lip LORD
He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and he refused to admit his pride when the prophet Jeremiah warned him directly from the Lord.
13 and also in/on/with king Nebuchadnezzar to rebel which to swear him in/on/with God and to harden [obj] neck his and to strengthen [obj] heart his from to return: turn back to(wards) LORD God Israel
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath of loyalty by God. Zedekiah was arrogant and hard-hearted, and refused to come back to the Lord, the God of Israel.
14 also all ruler [the] priest and [the] people to multiply (to/for be unfaithful *QK) unfaithfulness like/as all abomination [the] nation and to defile [obj] house: temple LORD which to consecrate: consecate in/on/with Jerusalem
All the leaders of the priests and the people were also totally faithless and sinful, following all the disgusting practices of the heathen nations. They defiled the Lord's Temple that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.
15 and to send: depart LORD God father their upon them in/on/with hand: by messenger his to rise and to send: depart for to spare upon people his and upon habitation his
Again and again the Lord, the God of their fathers, warned his people through his prophets, because he wanted to show mercy to them and to his Temple.
16 and to be to jest in/on/with messenger [the] God and to despise word his and to mock in/on/with prophet his till to ascend: rise rage LORD in/on/with people his till to/for nothing healing
But they ridiculed God's messengers, they despised his warnings and mocked his prophets, until the Lord's anger against his people was provoked to such an extent it couldn't be stopped.
17 and to ascend: establish upon them [obj] king (Chaldea *Qk) and to kill youth their in/on/with sword in/on/with house: home sanctuary their and not to spare upon youth and virgin old and decrepit [the] all to give: give in/on/with hand: power his
So the Lord brought the king of Babylon to attack them. His army killed by the sword their best young men even in the sanctuary. The Babylonians did not spare young men or young women, the sick or the elderly. God handed them all over to Nebuchadnezzar.
18 and all article/utensil house: temple [the] God [the] great: large and [the] small and treasure house: temple LORD and treasure [the] king and ruler his [the] all to come (in): bring Babylon
He took back to Babylon all the articles, large and small, from God's Temple, and from the Temple treasury, and from the king and from his officials.
19 and to burn [obj] house: temple [the] God and to tear [obj] wall Jerusalem and all citadel: palace her to burn in/on/with fire and all article/utensil desire her to/for to ruin
Then the Babylonians burned down God's Temple and demolished Jerusalem's walls. They set fire to all the palaces and destroyed everything that had any value.
20 and to reveal: remove [the] remnant from [the] sword to(wards) Babylon and to be to/for him and to/for son: child his to/for servant/slave till to reign royalty Persia
Nebuchadnezzar took into exile in Babylon those who had not been killed. They were slaves for himself and his sons, until the kingdom of Persia took over.
21 to/for to fill word LORD in/on/with lip Jeremiah till to accept [the] land: country/planet [obj] Sabbath her all day [the] be desolate: destroyed her to cease to/for to fill seventy year
So to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the land enjoyed its Sabbaths as rest all the time it was left desolate, keeping the Sabbath until seventy years were completed.
22 and in/on/with year one to/for Cyrus king Persia to/for to end: destroy word LORD in/on/with lip Jeremiah to rouse LORD [obj] spirit Cyrus king Persia and to pass voice: message in/on/with all royalty his and also in/on/with writing to/for to say
In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the Lord encouraged Cyrus, king of Persia, to issue a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it in writing, saying,
23 thus to say Cyrus king Persia all kingdom [the] land: country/planet to give: give to/for me LORD God [the] heaven and he/she/it to reckon: overseer upon me to/for to build to/for him house: home in/on/with Jerusalem which in/on/with Judah who? in/on/with you from all people his LORD God his with him and to ascend: rise
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, who has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, has given me the responsibility to build a Temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone among you who belongs to his people can go there. May the Lord your God be with you.’”
