He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother&#8217;s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

His servants took his body<n id="1" /> back to Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him<n id="2" /> and they killed him there.

His body was carried back by horses<n id="1" /> and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

<p class="poetry">For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;p> <p class="poetry">survivors will come out of Mount Zion.p> <p class="poetry">The intense devotion of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> to his people<n id="2" /> will accomplish this.p>

He built altars in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, about which the <sc>Lordsc> had said, &#8220;Jerusalem will be my home.&#8221;<n id="1" />

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah&#8217;s reign, such a Passover of the <sc>Lordsc> was observed in Jerusalem.p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time the generals<n id="1" /> of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.<n id="2" />

The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He<n id="1" /> attacked<n id="2" /> Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate &#8211; a distance of about six hundred feet.<n id="3" />

Perhaps you will tell me, &#8216;We are trusting in the <sc>Lordsc> our God.&#8217; But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, &#8216;You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.&#8217;

I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria<n id="1" /> and the dynasty of Ahab.<n id="2" /> I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.<n id="3" />

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter<n id="2" /> of King Omri of Israel.

<v id="(12:2)" /> In Jehu&#8217;s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

<p class="bodytext">At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked<n id="1" /> Gath and captured it. Hazael then decided to attack Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.