1. In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
2. The Lord sent against him bands of the Kasdim, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
3. Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
4. and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
5. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6. So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.