After him Manasseh his son reigned 12 years in Jerusalem.
2He did much evil, and made the people of Jerusalem worship idols.
3Then when he had thus transgressed the law of God, Isaias the prophet came to him and rebuked him for the wickednesses he had wrought.
4Then Manasseh was angry with him, and commanded valiant and wicked men to take Isaias the prophet, and to saw him asunder with a saw of wood, from his head down to his feet, among the trees of the wilderness; and then to cast him to the beasts [of the field] to devour him.
5And they did so to him. Isaias was then 120 years old.
6His raiment was of shaggy goat's hair upon his body; and he fasted regularly every second day [of the week] all the days of his life.
7Then Manasseh died; and after him reigned his son Amots, who did evil before God; for he offered sons and daughters in sacrifice unto idols.
8Then Amots died; and after him reigned Yusias his son.
9He was 20 years old when he [began] to reign, and continued 22 years in his kingdom in the city of Jerusalem.
10He did justice and right before God; and kept the Passover of the Lord, such as the children of Israel never were able to keep, except the one Moses kept for them in the wilderness.
11This king purified Jerusalem of all wickedness, Yet Pharhon the lame, king of Egypt, killed Yusias in Carmelos.
12Then after him Akaz reigned three months, yet Pharhon bound Akaz in chains and sent him into the land of Egypt; and he died in that place.
13After his death Yuakem his brother reigned 14 years; yet in the third year of his reign, Nabuchadnesor came to the city of Jerusalem, and God delivered Yuakem into his hands; and Yuakem was under his orders, bowed unto him, and paid him tribute; he then sickened and died.
14After him reigned his brother Yekonias three months; then marched forth Nabuchadnesor who took captive Yekonias and all his army, and sent them to Babylon.
15On the way thither, Daniel's mother gave him birth.
16Anania, Azaria, and Misael, sons of Yekonias, were also born on the first transportation of Yuakem.
17Then Yekonias died, and after him Zedekias reigned 12 years.
18This was the end of kings that reigned over the children of Israel, and all Judah; after them no king was left to them.
19And at the end of the 14th year of Zedekias, Nabukadanatsor came and transported all the people of Jerusalem, as far as the west, and as far as the river Euphrates, and as far as the great river.
20He laid waste Tyre, and burnt Hiram king of Tyre with fire, who had reigned 500 years.
21Then after this Nabukadanatsor went into Egypt, and put to death Pharhon; destroyed his army, and laid waste the land of Egypt; and then took the city of Jerusalem.
22And God delivered Zedekias into his hands, whom he took, and brought out before idols, and set him before the people, and slew his children before him, without pity.
23He then put out his eyes, bound his hands with chains and his feet with fetters; and sent him to Babylon, because of his folly, and of the evil he had done to Irmias the prophet, by casting him into springs of water in a marsh.
24After this Nabuzaradan captain of the king's army, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, burnt the House of God with fire; and did all manner of evil to Jerusalem.
25Yet Simeon the priest found favour and grace with the captain of the king's army, and requested him to give him the house of records; and he gave him a command accordingly.
26Then Simeon the priest came in and gathered together the ashes of the books, and laid them in a pot in a vault,
27and he took a censer of brass, and put fire therein, and threw pure incense upon it, and hung it in the vault over the place in which the ashes of the books lay.
28Yet [Nebuzaradan] laid waste Jerusalem, like a wilderness.
29And Jeremiah the prophet sat weeping and mourning over Jerusalem 20 years, after which this prophet Jeremiah went into the land of Egypt, and died there.
30Yet the writers and the interpreters destroyed the writings, and the Hebrews changed the writings; and the Syrians and the Greeks rejected many sections of those writings.
31So that the children of the people could not ascertain [their kindred], neither could men or women hear who were their fathers or their mothers, except very few of them;
32And this was because of the laying waste of Jerusalem; so that until this day, nothing certain is found among the writings, except the chief writings alone, writings that had been translated before the ruin of Jerusalem.
33Then again since some of the writings were altered, people could not ascertain how they were married, and could not know who were their wives or daughters;
34they did not know their names or their kindred; nor the order of generations; neither did they know that of the priesthood.
35And Jechonias remained 27 years bound in prison at Babylon.
36After that he was released by Marzuk king of Babylon, that married him to a wife, a woman called Dalilah daughter of Eliakim, by whom he had Salathiel in Babylon.
37Yet Jechonias, Salathiel's father, died at Babylon, and then Salathiel took to wife Hadast, daughter of Elkanah; and gave birth by her Zerubbabel.
38And Zerubbabel married a woman whose name was Malka, daughter of Ezra the scribe; yet he had no child by her in Babylon.
39Then in the days of Zerubbabel, who was elder among the children of Israel, a Persian king, called Cyrus, who reigned over Babylon, married a woman called Meshar, sister of Zerubbabel, elder among the children of Israel; and he made her queen after the manner of the queens of Persia.
40And when she became queen, she found favour with the king, and asked him to show mercy to the children of Israel, and to send them back to the city of Jerusalem.