And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
Parallel translations
- WEB He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
- KJV And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
- NKJV And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
- NASB He did evil in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with all that his forefathers had done.
- NLT He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as his ancestors had done.
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Quick answer
Jehoiakim does evil in the Lord's sight as his fathers had done. He continues the pattern of covenant unfaithfulness.
Overview
Like his brother before him, Jehoiakim abandons the ways of his godly father Josiah and follows the sins of earlier kings. His evil reign, marked by injustice and bloodshed (Jer. 22), hastens the judgment God had decreed. The verse reinforces that Judah's leaders persistently rejected the Lord.
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Cross-references · 9
- Jer 36:23–26And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- Jer 26:20–23Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
- 2 Chr 33:22–23And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
- 2 Kgs 23:32And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
- Ezek 19:5–9When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- Jer 36:31I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
- 2 Chr 28:22–25In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
- Jer 22:13–17“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- 2 Chr 33:4–10Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
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