2 Kings 23:36-24:7

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Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

^36 (A)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ³⁷ And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(B)according to all that his fathers had done.

24 ^(C)In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. ² And the Lord sent against him bands of the ^(D)Chaldeans and ^(E)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^(F)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets. ³ Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, ^(G)for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, ⁴ and also ^(H)for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. ^5 (I)Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ⁶ So Jehoiakim ^(J)slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. ^7 (K)And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, ^(L)for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt ^(M)from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.