1. During Jehoiakim’s reign King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked ⌊Judah⌋, and Jehoiakim became subject to him for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned against him and rebelled.
2. 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.
3. 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,
4. including the innocent blood he had shed. He had a lot of innocent people in Jerusalem killed, and the Lord refused to forgive him.
5. Isn’t everything else about Jehoiakim—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
6. Jehoiakim lay down in death with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.