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Y’hoyakim was twenty-five years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for eleven years in Yerushalayim. He did what was evil from the perspective of Adonai his God. N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel attacked him and bound him in chains to carry him off to Bavel. N’vukhadnetzar also carried the articles in the house of Adonai away to Bavel and put them in his temple in Bavel.

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Jehoiakim King of Judah(A)

Jehoiakim(B) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. Nebuchadnezzar(C) king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.(D) Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple[a] there.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:7 Or palace