Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim, the king of Juda, were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.
After that Jechonias the king and the queen and the eunuchs and the princes of Juda and of Jerusalem and the craftsman and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:
Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the land of Juda.
And he went up and down among the lions and became a lion and he learned to catch the prey and to devour men.