³⁶Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old^p when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebudah,^q the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. ³⁷He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his ancestors^r had done.

First Invasion of Nebuchadnezzar; Jehoiakim Submits

24In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up because Jehoiakim had become his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. ²So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the Ammonites.^a He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets. ³Surely, it was on the command^b of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done. ⁴Also, for the blood of the innocent that he had shed—and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood—Yahweh was not willing to forgive. ⁵The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? ⁶So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors,^c and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

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Footnotes

pLiterally “a son of twenty and five years”
qAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib reads “Zebidah”
rOr “fathers”
aLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”
bLiterally “on the mouth”
cOr “fathers”