2Ki 24:1-2 | NETfull | STEP | During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.

2 Kings 24:1-2

1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ^{▼▼ Heb “In his days.”} King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ^{▼▼ Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.} Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”} 2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. ^{▼▼ Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”}