2 Chronicles 36:3

36:3 The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax ¹  of one hundred talents ²  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 36:6

36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, ³  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away ⁴  to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ⁵  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ⁶  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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¹ tn Or “a fine.”

² tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

³ tn Heb “came up against him.”

⁴ tn Heb “to carry him away.”

⁵ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).