Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

2 Kings 23

36 j 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, d according to all that his fathers had done.

2 Kings 24

1 k In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the l Chaldeans and m bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, n 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, o for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 4 and also p for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. 5 q 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 r slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 7 s And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, t for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt u from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:5
    Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:32
    And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:6
    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 25:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon).
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
    Daniel 1:1
    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:4
    Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
    Jeremiah 32:28 - 29
    Therefore, thus says the Lord : Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.
    Jeremiah 35:11
    But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem.
    Ezekiel 19:8
    Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 35:11
    But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:17
    Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
    2 Kings 21:12 - 14
    Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
    2 Kings 23:27
    And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
  7. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
    2 Kings 23:26
    Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:16
    Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:8
    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:6
    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 22:18 - 19
    Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, my brother!' or 'Ah, sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, lord!' or 'Ah, his majesty!
    Jeremiah 36:30
    Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 37:5 - 7
    The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:2
    About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
    Jeremiah 46:20
    A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.
    Jeremiah 46:24
    The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.
    Jeremiah 46:26
    I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the Lord.
  13. Cross References
    Numbers 34:5
    And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
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