38
Jehoiakim put the nobles in prison, and seized his brother Zarius and brought him up out of Egypt.
39
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
40
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with a chain of brass and took him away to Babylon.
41
Nebuchadnezzar also took some holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and stored them in his temple in Babylon.
42
But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim and his uncleanness and impiety are written in the chronicles of the kings.
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