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2 Kings

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Jehoiakim

1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:6Jeremiah 25:1-9Daniel 1:12 Kings 20:14 2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord , which he spake by his servants the prophets.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 32:28Jeremiah 35:11Ezekiel 19:82 Kings 20:172 Kings 21:12-142 Kings 23:27 3Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;[ † ]2 Kings 21:2-112 Kings 23:26 4and also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.[ † ]2 Kings 21:16 5Now 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? 6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:6-8Jeremiah 22:18-19

Jehoiachin

7And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.[ † ]Jeremiah 37:5-7Jeremiah 46:2

8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.[ † ]1 Chronicles 3:162 Chronicles 36:9

Fall of Jerusalem

9And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father had done.

10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.[ † ]Daniel 1:1 11And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 12And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.[ † ]Jeremiah 22:24-30Jeremiah 24:1Jeremiah 29:1-2Ezekiel 17:122 Chronicles 36:10 13And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord , and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord , as the Lord had said.[ † ]2 Kings 20:17Isaiah 39:6Daniel 5:2-3Jeremiah 20:5 14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.[ † ]Isaiah 3:2-3Jeremiah 24:12 Kings 24:16Jeremiah 52:281 Samuel 13:192 Kings 25:12 15And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:10Esther 2:6Jeremiah 22:24-28Ezekiel 17:12 16And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.[ † ]Jeremiah 52:28 17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.[ † ]Jeremiah 37:11 Chronicles 3:152 Chronicles 36:102 Chronicles 36:4

18Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:11Jeremiah 52:12 Kings 23:31 19And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , according to all that Jehoiakim had done.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:12 20For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:13Ezekiel 17:15