2 Kings 23:34-24:7
New English Translation
34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died.[a] 35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho.[b]
Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother[c] was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah. 37 He did evil in the sight of[d] the Lord as his ancestors had done.
24 During Jehoiakim’s reign,[e] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked.[f] Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.[g] 2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, just as in the Lord’s message that he had announced through his servants the prophets. 3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins that Manasseh had committed.[h] 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.[i]
5 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.[j] 6 He passed away[k] and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king. 7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Stream of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 23:34 tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”
- 2 Kings 23:35 tn Heb “And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the silver at the command of Pharaoh, [from] each according to his tax he collected the silver and the gold, from the people of the land, to give to Pharaoh Necho.”
- 2 Kings 23:36 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
- 2 Kings 23:37 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Kings 24:1 tn Heb “In his days.”
- 2 Kings 24:1 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
- 2 Kings 24:1 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
- 2 Kings 24:3 tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”
- 2 Kings 24:4 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.”
- 2 Kings 24:5 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
- 2 Kings 24:6 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 Kings 23:34-24:7
English Standard Version
34 And (A)Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and (B)changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, (C)and he came to Egypt and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim (D)gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah
36 (E)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, (F)according to all that his fathers had done.
24 (G)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 (H)Chaldeans and (I)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, (J)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, (K)for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 4 and also (L)for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. 5 (M)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 (N)slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 7 (O)And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, (P)for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt (Q)from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
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