14. "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

15. and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

16. I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

17. I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18. "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your SINs.

19. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

20. Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21. "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your SINs.

22. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

23. "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

24. then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your SINs.

25. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27. "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

28. then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your SINs.

29. You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30. I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

31. I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

32. I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

33. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

36. "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

37. They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

39. Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

How could one chase a thousand,and two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,and the LORD had delivered them up?

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of The LORD. the LORD said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

Again The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, count Israel and Judah."

3. Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the SINs of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

4. and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

5. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

6. So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

7. The king of Egypt didn't come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9. He did that which was evil in The LORD's sight, according to all that his father had done.

10. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

11. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

12. and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

13. He carried out from there all the treasures of The LORD's house, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in The LORD's temple, as the LORD had said.

14. He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.

15. He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king's mother, the king's wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16. All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

17. The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19. He did that which was evil in The LORD's sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

20. For through the anger of The LORD, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.