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including the innocent blood he had shed. He had a lot of innocent people in Jerusalem killed, and the Lord refused to forgive him.

Isn’t everything else about Jehoiakim—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah? Jehoiakim lay down in death with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.

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including the shedding of innocent blood.(A) For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.(B)

As for the other events of Jehoiakim’s reign,(C) and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? Jehoiakim rested(D) with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin(E) his son succeeded him as king.

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