Jer 22:20 | TNotes | STEP | 22:20 Jehoiakim might have believed that the nation’s close neighbors, including Lebanon and Bashan , would support him in a time of crisis. They could not, because the Babylonians had already destroyed them. • Bashan was in the regions east of the Jordan river .

‏ Jeremiah 22:20

22:20 ^a Jehoiakim might have believed that the nation’s close neighbors, including Lebanon and Bashan, would support him in a time of crisis. They could not, because the Babylonians had already destroyed them.

• Bashan was in the regions east of the Jordan river.