¶ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim: and Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

Jehoiakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and did [a]evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and bound him with chains to carry him to Babel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:5 Because he and the people turned not to God by his first plague, he brought a new upon him, and at length rooted them out.

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