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Also his leading men voluntarily gave to the people and to the cohanim and L'vi'im. Hilkiyah, Z'kharyahu and Yechi'el, the rulers of the house of God, gave the cohanim 2,600 [lambs and kids] and 300 oxen for Pesach offerings.

Konanyah, his brothers Sh'ma‘yah and N'tan'el, and Hashavyah, Ye‘i'el and Yozavad, the head L'vi'im, gave the L'vi'im 5,000 [lambs and kids] and 500 oxen for Pesach offerings.

There archers shot King Yoshiyahu. The king said to his servants, "Take me away, because I'm badly wounded."

So his servants took him out of the chariot, transferred him to his second chariot and brought him to Yerushalayim. But he died, and he was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Y'hudah and Yerushalayim mourned Yoshiyahu.

Other activities of Yoshiyahu and all his good deeds in keeping with what is written in the Torah of Adonai ,

also his accomplishments from beginning to end, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el and Y'hudah.

Then the people of the land took Y'ho'achaz the son of Yoshiyahu and made him king in his father's place, in Yerushalayim.

Y'ho'achaz was twenty-three years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for three months in Yerushalayim.

Then the king of Egypt made Elyakim his brother king over Y'hudah and Yerushalayim, changing his name to Y'hoyakim; N'kho took Yo'achaz his brother and carried him off to Egypt.

Y'hoyakim was twenty-five years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for eleven years in Yerushalayim. He did what was evil from the perspective of Adonai his God.

N'vukhadnetzar also carried the articles in the house of Adonai away to Bavel and put them in his temple in Bavel.

Other activities of Y'hoyakim, including all the abominations he did publicly and those discovered later, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el and Y'hudah. Then Y'hoyakhin his son took his place as king.

Y'hoyakhin was eight years old when he began his reign, and he ruled in Yerushalayim for three months and ten days. He did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective.

In the spring, King N'vukhadnetzar sent and had him brought to Bavel together with the valuable articles from the house of Adonai , and made Tzedekyah his brother king over Y'hudah and Yerushalayim.

Tzedekyah was twenty-one years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for eleven years in Yerushalayim.

He did what was evil from the perspective of Adonai his God. He did not humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet speaking on behalf of Adonai .

Time after time, and frequently, Adonai , the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers; because he had compassion on his people and on the place where he lived.

But they ridiculed God's messengers, treating his words with contempt and scoffing at his prophets, until the anger of Adonai rose up against his people to the extent that there was no longer any remedy.

All the articles in the house of God, great and small; the supplies in the house of Adonai ; and the supplies of the king and his leading men — all these he brought to Bavel.

Those who had escaped the sword he carried off to Bavel, and they became slaves to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia.