Babylon Controls Jehoiakim

24 ^(A)In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and revolted against him.

^5 (A)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God. ⁶ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up ^(B)against him and ^(C)bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. ^7 (D)Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

Prophecy of the Captivity

25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the ^(A)fourth year of ^(B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the ^(C)first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

³ “From the ^(A)thirteenth year of ^(B)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, ^[a]these ^(C)twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you ^(D)again and again, but you have not listened.

Message to Baruch

45 This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to ^(A)Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had ^(B)written these words in a book ^[a]at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the ^(C)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:

² To ^(A)Egypt, concerning the army of ^(B)Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at ^(C)Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the ^(D)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

The Choice Young Men

1 In the third year of the reign of ^(A)Jehoiakim king of Judah, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.