2 Kings 24:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵Everything else Jehoiakim did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah. ⁶Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin became king.

⁷King Nebuchadnezzar defeated King Neco of Egypt and took control of his land from the Egyptian Gorge all the way north to the Euphrates River. So Neco never invaded Judah again.^[a]

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Footnotes

24.7 again: Nebuchadnezzar defeated the Egyptian army in 605 b.c. at the town of Carchemish. But a few years later, he was forced to retreat all the way back to Babylonia, which allowed Jehoiakim to rebel (see verse 1).