1. Soon after Josiah's son Zedekiah became king of Judah, the Lord told me
2. to make myself a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and to put it on my neck.
3. Then the Lord told me to send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors who had come to Jerusalem to see King Zedekiah.
4. The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, told me to command them to tell their kings that the Lord had said:
5. “By my great power and strength I created the world, the human race, and all the animals that live on the earth; and I give it to anyone I choose.
19-20. (When King Nebuchadnezzar took away to Babylonia the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, and the leading men of Judah and Jerusalem, he left the columns, the bronze tank, the carts, and some of the other temple treasures.)