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2 Kings 23:31-24:7 — The Last Kings of Judah

2Kgs.23.31-24.7

³¹Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ³²He did evil in the sight of Yahweh, just as his fathers had done. ³³Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ³⁴Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he went to Egypt and died there. ³⁵Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from each according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco. ³⁶Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ³⁷He did evil in the sight of Yahweh, just as his fathers had done.

Chapter 24

¹In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. ²Yahweh sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he spoke through his servants the prophets. ³Surely at the command of Yahweh this happened to Judah, to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, ⁴and also for the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh was not willing to forgive. ⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? ⁶Jehoiakim slept with his fathers , and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place. ⁷The king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

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4/11/2026

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