2 Kings 24:1

During his days, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ascended, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. And again he rebelled against him.

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In The King James Version

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

In Context

2And the Lord sent to him the robbers of the Chaldeans, and the robbers of Syria, and the robbers of Moab, and the robbers of the sons of Ammon. And he sent them into Judah, so that they might destroy it, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken through his servants, the prophets.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:20For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Judah, until he cast them away from his face. And so Zedekiah withdrew from the king of Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:6Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, ascended against him, and led him bound in chains to Babylon.

Isaiah 36:5And by what counsel or strength would you prepare to rebel? In whom do you have faith, so much so that you would withdraw from me?

Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will send for and take all the associates of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will lead them over this land, and over its inhabitants, and over all the nations that are around it. And I will destroy them, and I will set them in the midst of stupor and hissing, and continual desolations.

Ezekiel 19:8And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.

Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift people, marching across the width of the earth, to possess tabernacles not their own.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 24:1

Things are here ripening for, and hastening towards, the utter destruction of Jerusalem. We left Jehoiakim on the throne, placed there by the king of Egypt: now here we have, I. The troubles of his reign, how he was brought into subjection by the king of Babylon, and severely chastised for attempting to shake off the yoke ( ver. 1-6 ), and how Egypt also was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, ver. 7 . II. The desolations of his son's reign, which continued but three months; and then he and all his great men, being… Read the whole commentary →

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