OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

2 Kings 24:6

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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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2 Kings 24:3–9

3

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,

4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

5

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?

6
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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

7

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.

8

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.

9

He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that his father had done.

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