Jehoiakim's Reign and Disobedience
2 Chronicles 36:5-8
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2 C.36.5 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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- עשרים: NUM,card,pl
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- שנה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
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- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- אלהיו: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
Parallels
- 2 Kings 23:36 (quotation): Almost verbatim parallel: states Jehoiakim was 25 when he began to reign, reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 24:1 (thematic): Continues the narrative of Jehoiakim’s reign by describing his subservience to and later rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar—part of the consequences of his wicked rule.
- Jeremiah 22:18-19 (allusion): Prophetic denunciation of Jehoiakim for his evil deeds, pronouncing shameful death and ignoble burial—theological assessment of his morally corrupt reign.
- Jeremiah 36:22-26 (verbal): Narrates Jehoiakim’s hostile response to Jeremiah’s scroll (cutting and burning it), a concrete example of his rejection of God’s word and evidence of his evil conduct.
Alternative generated candidates
- Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
- Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 C.36.6 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- עליו: PREP,3,m,sg
- עלה: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
- נבוכדנאצר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- מלך: NOUN,m,sg,cons
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- להליכו: INF,qal,inf,OBJ:3,m,sg
- בבלה: PREP+NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
Parallels
- 2 Kings 25:7 (verbal): Describes the same sequence—Zedekiah’s sons killed, his eyes put out, and he is bound with fetters to be led to Babylon (same phrasing of binding and deportation).
- Jeremiah 52:11 (verbal): Parallel retelling of Zedekiah’s fate—’bound him with bronze fetters to carry him to Babylon’—uses virtually the same language as Chronicles.
- 2 Kings 24:1 (structural): Introduces Nebuchadnezzar’s campaign against Judah and the subjection/rebellion of the king—sets the wider historical context for the king’s capture mentioned in Chronicles.
- 2 Kings 24:12–16 (thematic): Narrates the removal of the king (Jehoiachin) and the exile to Babylon; thematically parallels the binding and deportation of Judah’s rulers in Chronicles.
Alternative generated candidates
- Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he bound him in bronze fetters to lead him to Babylon.
- Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he bound him in bronze fetters to carry him to Babylon.
2 C.36.7 - Details
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Morphology
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- בית: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- הביא: VERB,hiphil,perf,3,m,sg
- נבוכדנאצר: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- לבבל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ויתנם: CONJ+VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg,obj:3mp
- בהיכלו: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
- בבבל: PREP+NOUN,prop,f,sg
Parallels
- 2 Kings 24:13 (quotation): Second Kings records nearly the same action: Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the treasures of the house of the LORD and brought them to Babylon — a direct parallel/quotation to Chronicles’ report.
- 2 Kings 25:13-17 (quotation): The later chapter in Kings gives fuller detail of the removal of the temple vessels by Nebuchadnezzar’s captain and their placement in Babylon, paralleling and expanding the Chronicles statement.
- Jeremiah 52:17-23 (quotation): Jeremiah’s appendix repeats the account that Nebuchadnezzar took the temple vessels to Babylon, closely mirroring the language and content of Chronicles 36:7.
- Ezra 1:7-11 (thematic): Ezra describes Cyrus’s recovery and return of the vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had taken to Babylon, thematically linked as the subsequent fate and restoration of the same temple treasures mentioned in Chronicles.
Alternative generated candidates
- And Nebuchadnezzar brought all the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.
- And of the vessels of the house of the LORD Nebuchadnezzar carried to Babylon, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
2 C.36.8 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- ויתר: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg,abs
- דברי: NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,1,c,sg
- יהויקים: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ותעבתיו: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs
- אשר: PRON,rel
- עשה: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
- והנמצא: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg,abs
- עליו: PREP,3,m,sg
- הנם: NOUN,m,sg,def
- כתובים: VERB,pual,ptcp,m,pl
- על: PREP
- ספר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- מלכי: NOUN,pl,m,cons
- ישראל: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ויהודה: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
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- יהויכין: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- בנו: NOUN,m,sg,abs+3ms
- תחתיו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
Parallels
- 2 Kings 24:6 (verbal): Direct verbal parallel — explicitly states that the rest of Jehoiakim’s acts and abominations are written in the book of the kings/chronicles and notes Jehoiachin succeeds him.
- 2 Kings 23:36–24:7 (structural): Narrative parallel — provides the fuller account of Jehoiakim’s reign, his evil deeds, Nebuchadnezzar’s intervention, and the succession of his son Jehoiachin, material summarized in 2 Chronicles 36:8.
- Jeremiah 22:18–19 (thematic): Prophetic condemnation of Jehoiakim’s wickedness and ignominious end — echoes Chronicles’ emphasis on his ‘abominations’ and divine judgment.
- Jeremiah 36:30 (allusion): Prophecy that Jehoiakim will have no one to sit on David’s throne — relates to the chronicler’s note about succession (Jehoiachin) and the implication of dynastic rupture recorded in the kings/chronicles.
Alternative generated candidates
- The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he did, and what was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
- And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he did, and what was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he bound him with bronze fetters to lead him to Babylon. And Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and placed them in his temple in Babylon. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he did, and what was found concerning him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.