2 Kings 23:36
Context23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.
2 Kings 24:1
Context24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 2 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 3 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 4
2 Kings 24:5
Context24:5 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 5


[23:36] 1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[24:1] 2 tn Heb “In his days.”
[24:1] 3 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
[24:1] 4 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
[24:5] 3 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”