2 Chronicles 36:6-7

36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, ¹  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away ²  to Babylon. 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace ³  there. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 36:13

36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance ⁵  in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return ⁶  to the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ⁷  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ⁸  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

[36:6]  ¹ tn Heb “came up against him.”

[36:6]  ² tn Heb “to carry him away.”

[36:7]  ³ tn Or “temple.”

[36:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.

[36:13]  ⁵ tn Or “made him swear an oath.”

[36:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”

[36:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

[36:10]  ⁸ 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 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”).