24 In his days Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar+ the king of Babylon* came up, and so Je·hoiʹa·kim became his servant+ for three years. However, he turned back and rebelled against him.

8 “‘“‘And it must occur that the nation and the kingdom that will not serve him, even Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king of Babylon; and the one that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with the sword+ and with the famine+ and with the pestilence+ I shall turn my attention upon that nation,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘until I shall have finished them off by his hand.’+

28 Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am giving this city into the hand of the Chal·deʹans and into the hand of Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon, and he must capture it.+

10 And you must say to them, ‘This is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, has said: “Here I am sending and I will take Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon,+ my servant,+ and I will place his throne right above these stones that I have hidden, and he will certainly extend his state tent* over them.

7 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am bringing against Tyre Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon* from the north,+ a king of kings,+ with horses+ and war chariots+ and cavalrymen and a congregation,+ even a multitudinous people.

4 “Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king, to all the peoples, national groups and languages that are dwelling in all the earth:+ May YOUR peace grow great.+