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Then Jehoiakim turned against him and rebelled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The LORD sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as the LORD had predicted through his servants the prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Without a doubt, this happened to Judah because the LORD had commanded it to happen. He wanted to remove the people of Judah from his sight because of Manasseh's sins-everything he had done, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>including the innocent blood he had shed. He had a lot of innocent people in Jerusalem killed, and the LORD refused to forgive him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Isn't everything else about Jehoiakim-everything he did-written in the official records of the kings of Judah?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jehoiakim lay down in death with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king of Egypt didn't leave his own country again because the king of Babylon had taken all the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River. This territory had belonged to the king of Egypt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jehoiakin was 18 years old when he began to rule as king. He was king for three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehoiakin did what the LORD considered evil, as his father had done.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At that time the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem. (The city was blockaded.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon arrived while his officers were blockading the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>King Jehoiakin of Judah, his mother, officials, generals, and eunuchs surrendered to the king of Babylon. In the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon captured Jehoiakin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He also took away all the treasures in the LORD's temple and the royal palace. As the LORD had predicted, Nebuchadnezzar stripped the gold off all the furnishings that King Solomon of Israel had made for the LORD's temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He captured all Jerusalem, all the generals, all the soldiers </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He took Jehoiakin to Babylon as a captive. He also took the king's mother, wives, eunuchs, and the leading citizens of the land from Jerusalem as captives to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The king of Babylon brought all 7,000 of the prominent landowners, 1,000 craftsmen and smiths, and all the men who could fight in war as captives to Babylon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The king of Babylon made King Jehoiakin's Uncle Mattaniah king in his place and changed Mattaniah's name to Zedekiah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Zedekiah did what the LORD considered evil, as Jehoiakim had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD became angry with Jerusalem and Judah and threw the people out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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