2 Kings 24:1-7

Jehoiakim King of Judah

1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled.
2 The LORD sent Babylonian,[a] Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets.
3 Surely these things happened to Judah according to the LORD’s command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done,
4 including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was not willing to forgive.
5 As for the other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
6 Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.
7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Cross References 18

  • 1. ver 10; 2 Kings 25:11; Ezra 5:12; Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 25:1,9; Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 50:17; Jeremiah 52:15; Ezekiel 32:2; Daniel 1:1; Daniel 7:4
  • 2. Jeremiah 35:11
  • 3. S 2 Kings 18:7
  • 4. Jeremiah 5:15; Habakkuk 1:6
  • 5. Jeremiah 35:11
  • 6. S 2 Kings 5:2
  • 7. Isaiah 28:18-19; Jeremiah 25:9
  • 8. Jeremiah 12:7-9; Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 26:1; Jeremiah 36:1; Ezekiel 23:23; Daniel 1:2
  • 9. S 2 Kings 18:25
  • 10. 2 Kings 13:23
  • 11. S 1 Kings 14:9; S 2 Kings 21:12; 2 Kings 23:26; Jeremiah 15:4
  • 12. S 2 Kings 21:16; Jeremiah 22:3
  • 13. S Exodus 23:21; Lamentations 3:42
  • 14. Jeremiah 22:18-19
  • 15. Jeremiah 22:19; Jeremiah 36:30
  • 16. 1 Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 22:24,28; Ezekiel 19:1
  • 17. S Genesis 15:18; S 2 Kings 18:21; S Jeremiah 46:25
  • 18. Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 46:24">Jeremiah 46:24; Jeremiah 37:5-7; Jeremiah 46:2

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