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2 Kings

Jehoiakim’s Reign and Babylonian Pressure

2 Kings 23:36-24:7
36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah from Dumah. 37He did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD, just as all his fathers had done.
Chapter 24
1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. 2The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of Aram, bands of Moab, and bands of the sons of Ammon, and sent them into Judah to destroy him, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets. 3Surely this came upon Judah by the mouth of the LORD, to remove it from his face because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done. 4Moreover, the innocent blood that he had shed—he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood—and the LORD was not willing to forgive. 5As for the rest of the words of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? 6Jehoiakim lay down with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 7The king of Egypt did not again go out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the torrent of Egypt to the River Euphrates.
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