<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoiachin was eighteen<n id="1" /> years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> He did evil in the sight of<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">The gatekeepers:p> <p class="bodytext">the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 138.p>

<p class="poetry">Divide your merchandise<n id="1" /> among seven or even eight<n id="2" /> investments,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for you do not know<n id="4" /> what calamity<n id="5" /> may happen on earth.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah.<n id="1" /> That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.p>

Each of the pillars was about 27 feet<n id="1" /> high, about 18 feet<n id="2" /> in circumference, three inches<n id="3" /> thick, and hollow.

<p class="poetry">He will give us peace.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the Assyrians try to invade our landp> <p class="poetry">and attempt to set foot in our fortresses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">we will send<n id="3" /> against them seven<n id="4" /> shepherd-rulers,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">make that eight commanders.<n id="6" />p>

Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old<n id="1" /> must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had vowed to them.

The <sc>Lordsc> was furious with Israel<n id="1" /> and turned them over to<n id="2" /> King Cushan-Rishathaim<n id="3" /> of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim&#8217;s subjects<n id="4" /> for eight years.

They ruthlessly oppressed<n id="1" /> the Israelites that eighteenth year<n id="2" /> &#8211; that is, all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Amorite country in Gilead.

The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.<n id="1" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem<n id="2" /> in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul&#8217;s days he was old and well advanced in years.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">These are the names of David&#8217;s warriors:p> <p class="bodytext">Josheb-Basshebeth, a Tahkemonite, was head of the officers.<n id="1" /> He killed eight hundred men with his spear in one battle.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Joab reported the number of warriors<n id="1" /> to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.p>

<p class="bodytext">He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet<n id="1" /> high and 18 feet<n id="2" /> in circumference.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-eighth year of Asa&#8217;s reign over Judah, Omri&#8217;s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria.<n id="1" />

King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered<n id="1" /> to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign,<n id="2" /> took Jehoiachin<n id="3" /> prisoner.

Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet<n id="1" /> high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet<n id="2" /> high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.p>

The descendants of Eleazar had more leaders than the descendants of Ithamar, so they divided them up accordingly; the descendants of Eleazar had sixteen leaders, while the descendants of Ithamar had eight.<n id="1" />

They donated for the service of God&#8217;s temple 5,000 talents<n id="1" /> and ten thousand darics<n id="2" /> of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.