So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family.

But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”

You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.”

Jehoiada led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up.

He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land.

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign.

The king asked them, “Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”

So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as the Lord predicted.

His body was carried back by horses and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam and took his place as king.

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.