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
Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.
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 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] 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
King Neco of Egypt [captured him and] prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay him a tax of almost four tons of silver and about 75 pounds 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]
The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz’s [younger] brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. After Neco captured Jehoahaz, he took 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 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 11 years. He did things that Yahweh his God considers to be evil.
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 the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They [captured Jehoiakim and] bound him with bronze chains and took 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’s soldiers also took valuable things from the temple; they took them to Babylon and put them in king [Nebuchadnezzar’s] palace there.
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
A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the detestable things that he did, including the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’. After [he was taken to Babylon], his son Jehoiachin became the king [of Judah].
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 18 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
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
During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent [soldiers] to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
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 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 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 many things that Yahweh his God considered to be evil. And he did not humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah gave him a message from Yahweh [to warn him].
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 would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel [said that they worshiped]. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name [to be loyal to him]. Zedekiah became very stubborn.
14 also all ruler [the] priest and [the] people to multiply (to/for be unfaithful *Q(K)*) unfaithfulness like/as all abomination [the] nation and to defile [obj] house: temple LORD which to consecrate: consecate in/on/with Jerusalem
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people [of Judah] became more wicked again, doing all the detestable things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become [an] unacceptable [place to worship him].
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
Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors [of the people of Judah belonged to/worshiped], gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets told those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
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 the people continually made fun of God’s messengers. They despised God’s messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him [from destroying Judah].
17 and to ascend: establish upon them [obj] king (Chaldea *Q(k)*) 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
He incited the king of Babylonia to attack [Judah with his army]. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.
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
His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and 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
They burned the temple, and they broke down the wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned all the palaces [in Jerusalem] and destroyed all the remaining valuable things there.
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’s soldiers took to Babylon the remaining people who had not been killed with their swords. Then those people became the king’s slaves and his son’s slaves, until the [army of the] king of Persia conquered [the army of Babylonia].
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
[Moses had said that every seventh year the people must not plant their fields; they must allow the soil to rest. But the people had not done that. So after the army of Babylonia destroyed Judah, ] the soil was allowed to rest. That continued for 70 years, fulfilling what Yahweh told Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had predicted/prophesied would happen.
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
During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
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
“I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God [who rules] in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he wants me to [command that my workers] build a temple {a temple be built} for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of his people living among you people of Persia are allowed to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them.”
