In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. Dan 1:1Jer 25:1Jer 25:92Ch 36:6-212Ki 17:5Jer 46:2 The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke by his servants the prophets. Jer 35:112Ki 23:272Ki 21:12-14Jer 25:9Jer 32:282Ki 20:172Ki 6:23Ezk 19:8 Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 2Ki 18:252Ki 23:26-272Ki 21:2-112Ch 24:242Ch 25:16Amo 3:6Deu 28:63Deu 29:28 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon. 2Ki 21:16Deu 19:10Ezk 33:25Jer 15:1-2Jer 2:34Num 35:33Psa 106:38Jer 19:4 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 2Ch 36:8Jer 22:13-17Jer 26:1-24 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. Jer 22:18-192Ch 36:6Jer 36:302Ch 36:8
The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt. Jer 37:5-7Jer 46:2Gen 15:18Num 34:51Ki 4:21Isa 27:12Jos 15:4
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 1Ch 3:162Ch 36:9Jer 22:24Jer 22:28Jer 24:1Jer 37:1Mat 1:11-12 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that his father had done. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 2Ki 25:2Dan 1:1-2 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon—he, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign. Jer 24:1Jer 52:282Ch 36:102Ki 25:27Jer 29:1-2Ezk 17:12Jer 25:1Jer 22:24-30 He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD had said. Isa 39:62Ki 20:17Jer 20:51Ki 7:48-502Ki 25:13-15Dan 5:2-32Ch 4:7-22Ezr 1:7-11 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained except the poorest people of the land. Jer 52:282Ki 25:122Ki 24:162Ch 36:9-10Ezk 1:1-2Jer 39:10Jer 40:7Jer 52:16 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2Ch 36:10Est 2:6Jer 22:24-282Ki 24:8Ezk 17:12 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. Jer 52:282Ki 24:14Jer 29:2 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. Jer 37:12Ch 36:42Ki 23:341Ch 3:15-162Ch 36:10-13Jer 52:1
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2Ki 23:31Jer 52:1-112Ch 36:11Jer 37:1 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 2Ki 23:372Ch 36:12Ezk 21:25Jer 24:8Jer 37:1-21 For through the anger of the LORD, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. 2Ch 36:132Th 2:9-111Co 1:202Ki 22:17Deu 2:30Deu 29:27Exo 9:14-17Ezk 17:15-20
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.