2 Kings 24:1-4

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

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.

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.
   
6. 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.