^23:36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.⁷⁰ His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah. ^23:37He did evil in the sight of⁷¹ the Lord as his ancestors had done.

^24:1During Jehoiakim’s reign,¹ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked.² Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.³

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70 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
71 Heb “in the eyes of.”
1 Heb “In his days.”
2 Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
3 The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”