Jehoiakim Rebels Against Nebuchadnezzar

24 ^(A)In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

Jehoiakim Reigns over Judah

^5 (A)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. ⁶ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up ^(B)against him and ^(C)bound him with bronze chains to lead him off to Babylon. ^7 (D)Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of Yahweh to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon.

Seventy Years of Captivity

25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the ^(A)fourth year of ^(B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the ^(C)first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

³ “From the ^(A)thirteenth year of ^(B)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, ^[a]these ^(C)twenty-three years the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, ^[b](D)rising up early and speaking, but you have not listened.

Word to Baruch

45 This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to ^(A)Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had ^(B)written down these words in a book ^[a]at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the ^(C)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:

² To ^(A)Egypt, concerning the military force of ^(B)Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at ^(C)Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down in the ^(D)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Daniel Brought to Babylon

1 In the third year of the reign of ^(A)Jehoiakim king of Judah, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.