Bible Cross References
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2 Kings 24:1-7
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While Jehoiakim was king, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah, and for three years Jehoiakim was forced to submit to his rule; then he rebelled.
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The LORD sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the LORD had said through his servants the prophets that he would do.
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This happened at the LORD's command, in order to banish the people of Judah from his sight because of all the sins that King Manasseh had committed,
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and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The LORD could not forgive Manasseh for that.
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Everything that Jehoiakim did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.
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Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.
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The king of Egypt and his army never marched out of Egypt again, because the king of Babylonia now controlled all the territory that had belonged to Egypt, from the Euphrates River to the northern border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. He sinned against the LORD his God.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
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Doomed is the one who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty; who makes his people work for nothing and does not pay their wages.
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Doomed is the one who says, "I will build myself a mansion with spacious rooms upstairs." So he puts windows in his house, panels it with cedar, and paints it red.
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Does it make you a better king if you build houses of cedar, finer than those of others? Your father enjoyed a full life. He was always just and fair, and he prospered in everything he did.
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He gave the poor a fair trial, and all went well with him. That is what it means to know the LORD.
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But you can only see your selfish interests; you kill the innocent and violently oppress your people. The LORD has spoken.
Jeremiah 26:1-24
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Soon after Jehoiakim son of Josiah became king of Judah,
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the LORD said to me, "Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not leave out anything.
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Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do, then I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds."
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The LORD told me to say to the people, "I, the LORD, have said that you must obey me by following the teaching that I gave you,
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and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.
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If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."
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The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard me saying these things in the Temple,
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and as soon as I had finished all that the LORD had commanded me to speak, they grabbed me and shouted, "You ought to be killed for this!
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Why have you said in the LORD's name that this Temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will be destroyed and no one will live in it?" Then the people crowded around me.
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When the leaders of Judah heard what had happened, they hurried from the royal palace to the Temple and took their places at the New Gate.
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Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, "This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears."
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Then I said, "The LORD sent me to proclaim everything that you heard me say against this Temple and against this city.
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You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and must obey the LORD your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.
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As for me, I am in your power! Do with me whatever you think is fair and right.
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But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the LORD who sent me to give you this warning."
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Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man spoke to us in the name of the LORD our God; he should not be put to death."
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After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had gathered,
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"When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the LORD Almighty had said, 'Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.'
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King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honored the LORD and tried to win his favor. And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves."
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(There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the LORD against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.
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When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.
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King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.
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They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)
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But because I had the support of Ahikam son of Shaphan, I was not handed over to the people and killed.
Jeremiah 36:1-32
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In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,
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"Get a scroll and write on it everything that I have told you about Israel and Judah and all the nations. Write everything that I have told you from the time I first spoke to you, when Josiah was king, up to the present.
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Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the destruction that I intend to bring on them, they will turn from their evil ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins."
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So I called Baruch son of Neriah and dictated to him everything that the LORD had said to me. And Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.
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Then I gave Baruch the following instructions: "I am no longer allowed to go into the Temple.
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But I want you to go there the next time the people are fasting. You are to read the scroll aloud, so that they will hear everything that the LORD has said to me and that I have dictated to you. Do this where everyone can hear you, including the people of Judah who have come in from their towns.
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Perhaps they will pray to the LORD and turn from their evil ways, because the LORD has threatened this people with his terrible anger and fury."
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So Baruch read the LORD's words in the Temple exactly as I had told him to do.
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In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, the people fasted to gain the LORD's favor. The fast was kept by all who lived in Jerusalem and by all who came there from the towns of Judah.
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Then, while all the people were listening, Baruch read from the scroll everything that I had said. He did this in the Temple, from the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan, the court secretary. His room was in the upper court near the entrance of the New Gate of the Temple.
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Micaiah, the son of Gemariah and grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll what the LORD had said.
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Then he went to the royal palace, to the room of the court secretary, where all the officials were in session. Elishama, the court secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials were there.
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Micaiah told them everything that he had heard Baruch read to the people.
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Then the officials sent Jehudi (the son of Nethaniah, grandson of Shelemiah, and great-grandson of Cushi) to tell Baruch to bring the scroll that he had read to the people. Baruch brought them the scroll.
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"Sit down," they said, "and read the scroll to us." So Baruch did.
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After he had read it, they turned to one another in alarm and said to Baruch, "We must report this to the king."
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Then they asked him, "Tell us, now, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it to you?"
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Baruch answered, "Jeremiah dictated every word of it to me, and I wrote it down in ink on this scroll."
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Then they told him, "You and Jeremiah must go and hide. Don't let anyone know where you are."
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The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the court secretary, and went to the king's court, where they reported everything to the king.
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Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He took it from the room of Elishama and read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him.
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It was winter and the king was sitting in his winter palace in front of the fire.
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As soon as Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king cut them off with a small knife and threw them into the fire. He kept doing this until the entire scroll was burned up.
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But neither the king nor any of his officials who heard all this was afraid or showed any sign of sorrow.
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Although Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, he paid no attention to them.
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Then he ordered Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my secretary Baruch. But the LORD had hidden us.
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After King Jehoiakim had burned the scroll that I had dictated to Baruch, the LORD told me
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to take another scroll and write on it everything that had been on the first one.
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The LORD told me to say to the king, "You have burned the scroll, and you have asked Jeremiah why he wrote that the king of Babylonia would come and destroy this land and kill its people and its animals.
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So now, I, the LORD, say to you, King Jehoiakim, that no descendant of yours will ever rule over David's kingdom. Your corpse will be thrown out where it will be exposed to the sun during the day and to the frost at night.
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I will punish you, your descendants, and your officials because of the sins all of you commit. Neither you nor the people of Jerusalem and of Judah have paid any attention to my warnings, and so I will bring on all of you the disaster that I have threatened."
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Then I took another scroll and gave it to my secretary Baruch, and he wrote down everything that I dictated. He wrote everything that had been on the first scroll and similar messages that I dictated to him.