Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. Jer 22:111Ch 3:152Ch 26:12Ch 33:252Ki 23:30-37 Joahaz 1 was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent 2 of gold. 2Ki 23:33 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz 3 his brother, and carried him to Egypt. Jer 22:10-121Ch 3:152Ki 23:34-35Ezk 19:3-4
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. 2Ki 23:36-37Jer 22:13-19Jer 26:1Jer 26:21-23Jer 35:1Jer 36:1Jer 36:27-32 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. 2Ch 33:112Ki 24:1-22Ki 24:13-202Ki 24:5-6Dan 1:1-2Ezk 19:5-9Hab 1:5-10Jer 25:9 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the LORD’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 2Ki 24:13Dan 1:2Dan 5:2-4Ezr 1:7-11Jer 27:16-18Jer 28:3 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 2Ki 24:5-61Ch 3:16-17Jer 22:24Jer 22:28Mat 1:11-12
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. 2Ki 24:8-17 At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the LORD’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. Jer 37:12Ch 36:71Ch 3:15-162Ch 36:182Ki 24:10-172Ki 25:27-302Sa 11:1Dan 1:1-2
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 2Ki 24:18-20Jer 27:1Jer 28:1Jer 52:1-3 He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the LORD’s mouth. 2Ch 33:23Jer 37:2-21Jer 38:14-281Pe 5:62Ch 32:262Ch 33:122Ch 33:192Ch 35:22 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. 2Ch 30:8Ezk 17:11-20Jer 52:2-32Ki 17:42Ki 24:202Sa 21:2Exo 8:15Exo 8:32 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the LORD’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. Dan 9:8Ezk 22:62Ch 28:32Ch 33:4-72Ch 33:92Ki 16:10-16Dan 9:6Ezk 22:26-28
The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place; Jer 35:15Jer 7:13Jer 25:3-42Ch 24:18-21Jdg 10:16Jer 26:5Jer 44:4-5Jer 7:25 but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy. Jer 5:12-132Ch 30:10Luk 22:63-641Th 4:8Jer 32:3Pro 6:15Psa 74:1Ezr 5:12
Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm. He gave them all into his hand. Ezr 9:7Psa 74:20Ezk 9:5-7Jer 40:32Ch 24:212Ch 33:112Ki 24:2-32Ki 25:1-30 All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the LORD’s house, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. 2Ch 36:102Ch 36:72Ki 20:13-172Ki 25:13-17Dan 5:3Isa 39:6Jer 27:18-22Jer 52:17-23 They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels. Psa 79:11Ki 9:82Ki 25:9-11Isa 64:10-11Jer 52:13-15Jer 7:14Jer 7:4Lam 4:1 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, Jer 27:7Ezr 1:1-112Ch 36:222Ki 25:11Deu 28:47-48 to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. Jer 29:10Lev 26:34-35Dan 9:2Jer 25:11-12Zec 1:12Lev 26:43Lev 25:4-6Jer 25:9
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the LORD’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Jer 25:12Ezr 1:1-3Jer 29:102Ch 36:21Isa 44:28Isa 13:17-18Jer 33:10-14Dan 10:1 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.’” Dan 2:21Dan 2:37Dan 4:35Dan 5:23Ezr 7:13Isa 44:26-28Psa 75:5-7Rom 8:31