2 Kings 24:1

Context

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign,¹ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked.² Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.³

2 Kings 24:6-7

Context
24:6 He passed away⁴ and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king. 24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

[24:1] ¹tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1] ²tn 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] ³tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

[24:6] ⁴tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”