The king spoke and said, "Is not this great BABYLON, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?"

The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in The LORD's house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in The LORD's house, and carried the brass pieces to BABYLON.

6. Nebuchadnezzar king of BABYLON came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to BABYLON.

7. Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of The LORD's house to BABYLON, and put them in his temple at BABYLON.

8. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

9. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in The LORD's sight.

10. At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to BABYLON, with the valuable vessels of The LORD's house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

11. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

12. He did that which was evil in the LORD his God's sight. He didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from The LORD's mouth.

13. He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to The LORD, the God of Israel.

14. Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted The LORD's house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

15. The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

16. but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until The LORD's wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

17. Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

18. All the vessels of God's house, great and small, and the treasures of The LORD's house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to BABYLON.

19. They burned God's house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

20. He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to BABYLON, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,