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The LORD sent against him bands of the Kasdim, and bands of the Aram, and bands of the Mo`avim, and bands of the children of `Ammon, and sent them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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Surely at the mitzvah of the LORD came this on Yehudah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Menashsheh, according to all that he did,
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and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and the LORD would not pardon.
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Now the rest of the acts of Yehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
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So Yehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Yehoiakim his son reigned in his place.
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The king of Mitzrayim didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Bavel had taken, from the brook of Mitzrayim to the river Perat, all that pertained to the king of Mitzrayim.
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Yehoiakim was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Yerushalayim three months: and his mother's name was Nechushta the daughter of Elnatan of Yerushalayim.
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He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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At that time the servants of Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came up to Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged.
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Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
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and Yehoiakim the king of Yehudah went out to the king of Bavel, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Bavel took him in the eighth year of his reign.