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2 Kings 24:4-9 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

4. and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The Lord could not forgive Manasseh for that.

5. Everything else that Jehoiakim did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.

6. Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.

7. The king of Egypt and his army never marched out of Egypt again, because the king of Babylonia now controlled all the territory that had belonged to Egypt, from the River Euphrates to the northern border of Egypt.

8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months. His mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.

9. Following the example of his father, Jehoiachin sinned against the Lord.

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