Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight (A)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, (B)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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