2 Kings 24:4-7

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.

2 Kings 24:4-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 24

This chapter relates the rebellion of Jehoiakim against the king of Babylon, which prepared the way for the ruin of the kingdom of Judah, according to the decree of God, and also the death of Jehoiakim, and the conquest the king of Babylon made of part of the land of the king of Egypt, 2Ki 24:1-7 and the short and wicked reign of Jehoiachin his son, when he and the royal family, with great numbers of the inhabitants of the land, were carried captive to Babylon, 2Ki 24:8-16, and his uncle was made king in his room, 2Ki 24:17-20.

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Kings 21:16; Jeremiah 22:3
• 2. S Exodus 23:21; Lamentations 3:42
• 3. Jeremiah 22:18-19
• 4. Jeremiah 22:19; Jeremiah 36:30
• 5. 1 Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 22:24,28; Ezekiel 19:1
• 6. S Genesis 15:18; S 2 Kings 18:21; S Jeremiah 46:25
• 7. Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 46:24">Jeremiah 46:24; Jeremiah 37:5-7; Jeremiah 46:2