36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 He did evil in the sight of 2 the Lord his God. 36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, 3 bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away 4 to Babylon. 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace 5 there. 6
36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 7 His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.