1 During Jehoiakim’s reign Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned and rebelled against him.
2 The Lord loosed against him bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he unleashed them against Judah to destroy him, according to the Lord’s word spoken through his servants the prophets.
3 This befell Judah because the Lord had stated that he would put them out of his sight for the sins Manasseh had committed in all that he did,
4 and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.
5 The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.