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Now, a little time afterwards, the king of Babylon made an expedition
against Jehoiakim, whom he received [into the city], and this out of fear
of the foregoing predictions of this prophet, as supposing he should suffer
nothing that was terrible, because he neither shut the gates, nor fought
against him; yet when he was come into the city, he did not observe the
covenants he had made, but he slew such as were in the flower of their
age, and such as were of the greatest dignity, together with their king
Jehoiakim, whom he commanded to be thrown before the walls, without any
burial; and made his son Jehoiachin king of the country, and of the city:
he also took the principal persons in dignity for captives, three thousand
in number, and led them away to Babylon; among which was the prophet Ezekiel,
who was then but young. And this was the end of king Jehoiakim, when he
had lived thirty-six years, and of them reigned eleven. But Jehoiachin
succeeded him in the kingdom, whose mother's name was Nehushta; she was
a citizen of Jerusalem. He reigned three months and ten days.
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1 THAT THE KING OF BABYLON REPENTED OF MAKING JEHOIACHIN KING, AND TOOK HIM AWAY TO BABYLON AND DELIVERED THE KINGDOM TO ZEDEKIAH. THIS KING WOULD NOT RELIEVE WHAT WAS PREDICTED BY JEREMIAH AND EZEKIEL BUT JOINED HIMSELF TO THE EGYPTIANS; WHO WHEN THEY CAME INTO JUDEA, WERE VANQUISHED BY THE KING OF BABYLON; AS ALSO WHAT BEFELL JEREMIAH.
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