44. and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did that which was evil before the Lord.
45. So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought to Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;
46. and made Sedekias king of Judaea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:
47. and he also did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken by Jeremy the prophet from the mouth of the Lord.
48. And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
49. Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.
50. And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place.
51. But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke to them, they scoffed at his prophets:
52. so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them;
53. who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands.
54. And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon.