2 Kings 24:6

24:6 He passed away ¹  and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

2 Kings 24:19

24:19 He did evil in the sight of ²  the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. ³ 

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah

23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁵  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁶  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁷ 

2 Kings 24:5

24:5 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. ⁸ 

2 Kings 23:34-35

23:34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. ⁹  23:35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho. ¹⁰ 

[24:6]  ¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[24:19]  ² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[24:19]  ³ tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”

[23:36]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[24:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

[24:5]  ⁵ 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?”

[23:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”

[23:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the silver at the command of Pharaoh, [from] each according to his tax he collected the silver and the gold, from the people of the land, to give to Pharaoh Necho.”