2 Kings 24
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In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
And 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.
Surely 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;

Surely.

2 Kings 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? …

Genesis 50:20 But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it to …

2 Chronicles 24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and …

2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …

Isaiah 10:5,6 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my …

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: …

Isaiah 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …

remove them.

2 Kings 23:26,27 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great …

Leviticus 26:33-35 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …

Deuteronomy 4:26,27 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…

Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to …

Deuteronomy 29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, …

Joshua 23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come …

Jeremiah 15:1-4 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, …

Micah 2:10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, …

for the sins.

2 Kings 21:2-11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the …

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Now 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?
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

A.M.

2 Chronicles 26:6,8 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down …

Jeremiah 22:18,19 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah …

Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus said the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall …

Jehoiachin. As this man reigned only three months, and was a mere vassal of the king of Babylon, his reign is scarcely reckoned; and therefore Jeremiah (31:30) says of Jehoiakim, 'he shall have none to sit upon the throne of David.'

And 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.
Jehoiachin 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.

Jehoiachin.

1 Chronicles 3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before …

Jeconiah.

Jeremiah 22:24,28 As I live, said the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king …

Jeremiah 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the …

Coniah.

Matthew 1:11,12 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they …

Jechonias.
eighteen years. In the parallel place, he is said to be only eight years old; but this must be a mistake, for we find that having reigned only three months, he was carried captive to Babylon, and there had wives; and had he been of such a tender age, it could scarcely have been said that, as a king, 'he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.'

2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Zedekiah 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.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
For 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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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