Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Parallel translations
- WEB Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
- KJV Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
- BSB Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
- NKJV Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.
- NLT Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and captured it, and he bound Jehoiakim in bronze chains and led him away to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacks Jehoiakim and binds him to take him to Babylon. The rising power of Babylon now bears down on Judah.
Overview
Babylon, the empire that would destroy Jerusalem, comes against Jehoiakim and seizes him in chains. This first major Babylonian intervention signals the instrument of God's judgment on Judah. The shift from Egyptian to Babylonian domination marks the final phase before the city's destruction.
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- 2 Chr 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- 2 Kgs 24:1–2In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
- 2 Kgs 24:13–20He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
- 2 Kgs 24:5–6Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- Dan 1:1–2In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
- Ezek 19:5–9“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
- Jer 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Hab 1:5–10“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
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