¹Semasa pemerintahan Raja Yoyakim, Nebukadnezar raja Babel menyerang dan menaklukkan Yehuda. Tiga tahun lamanya Yoyakim tunduk kepada Nebukadnezar, tetapi kemudian ia memberontak.

¹In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

²TUHAN mengirim gerombolan-gerombolan bersenjata dari bangsa Babel, Siria, Moab dan Amon untuk melawan Yoyakim dan membinasakan Yehuda, sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan-Nya melalui para nabi hamba-hamba-Nya.

²Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

³Memang hal itu harus terjadi, karena TUHAN sudah mengatakan bahwa bangsa Yehuda akan dibuang dari negeri yang diberikan TUHAN kepada mereka. Mereka dibuang karena segala dosa yang dilakukan oleh Raja Manasye;

³Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

⁴terutama karena semua pembunuhan yang dilakukannya terhadap orang-orang yang tidak bersalah. TUHAN tidak mau mengampuni Manasye karena perbuatan-perbuatannya itu.

⁴and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

⁵Seluruh daerah, dari Sungai Efrat sampai perbatasan Mesir sebelah utara yang termasuk wilayah pemerintahan raja Mesir, dikuasai oleh raja Babel. Karena itu raja Mesir tidak pernah lagi keluar dari negerinya untuk pergi berperang. Kisah lainnya mengenai Raja Yoyakim dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Raja-raja Yehuda. Setelah Yoyakim meninggal, putranya yang bernama Yoyakhin menjadi raja menggantikan dia.

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

⁶(24:5)

⁶So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

⁷(24:5)

⁷The king of Egypt didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

⁸Yoyakhin berumur 18 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem tiga bulan lamanya. Ibunya bernama Nehusta anak Elnatan, dari Yerusalem.

⁸Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

⁹Seperti ayahnya, Yoyakhin pun berdosa kepada TUHAN.

⁹He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.

¹⁰Dalam masa pemerintahan Yoyakhin, pasukan Babel yang dipimpin oleh perwira-perwira Nebukadnezar, maju menyerang Yerusalem, dan mengepung kota itu.

¹⁰At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

¹¹Sementara kota itu dikepung, Nebukadnezar sendiri datang ke Yerusalem,

¹¹Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

¹²lalu Raja Yoyakhin bersama ibunya, anak-anaknya, perwira-perwiranya serta pegawai-pegawai istananya menyerah kepada Nebukadnezar. Lalu Yoyakhin ditawan. Hal itu terjadi pada tahun kedelapan pemerintahan Nebukadnezar.

¹²and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

¹³Semua perkakas emas yang dibuat oleh Raja Salomo untuk Rumah TUHAN, dirusak oleh Nebukadnezar. Lalu semua benda berharga yang terdapat di Rumah TUHAN itu dan di istana diangkutnya ke Babel. Semua itu terjadi sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan TUHAN sebelumnya.

¹³He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.

¹⁴Raja Yoyakhin, ibunya, istri-istrinya, pegawai-pegawainya, dan pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda--seluruhnya 7.000 orang terkemuka--ditawan dan diangkut ke Babel. Juga para pekerja ahli dan pandai besi sebanyak 1.000 orang, semuanya orang kuat-kuat dan berani-berani untuk berperang. Orang-orang keturunan raja, dan orang-orang terkemuka pun diangkut juga ke pembuangan--semuanya ada 10.000 orang. Hampir seluruh penduduk Yerusalem diangkut; yang tertinggal hanyalah rakyat yang paling miskin.

¹⁴He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

¹⁵(24:14)

¹⁵He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

¹⁶(24:14)

¹⁶All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

¹⁷Kemudian Nebukadnezar mengangkat Matanya, paman Yoyakhin, menjadi raja Yehuda, dan mengubah namanya menjadi Zedekia.

¹⁷The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

¹⁸Zedekia berumur 21 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda. Ia memerintah di Yerusalem 11 tahun lamanya. Ibunya bernama Hamutal, anak Yeremia dari kota Libna.

¹⁸Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

¹⁹Seperti Raja Yoyakim, Raja Zedekia juga berdosa kepada TUHAN.

¹⁹He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

²⁰TUHAN marah sekali kepada penduduk Yerusalem dan orang Yehuda sehingga Ia tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka.

²⁰For through the anger of Yahweh, it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.