Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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- 2 Kings 24:13 (v7) He 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…
- 2 Kings 23:36-37 (v5) Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the…
- 2 Kings 24:5-6 (vv6, 8) Now 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? So…
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 (v6) Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and…
- Jeremiah 22:13-19 (v5) “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t…
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- Jeremiah 26:1 (v5) In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh:
- 2 Kings 24:1-2 (v6) In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.…
- 2 Kings 24:13-20 (v6) He 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…
- 1 Chronicles 3:16-17 (v8) The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son. The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
- Ezra 1:7-11 (v7) Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house…
- Jeremiah 22:24 (v8) “As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from…
- Jeremiah 22:28 (v8) Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast…
- Jeremiah 25:9 (v6) behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my…
- Jeremiah 26:21-23 (v5) When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah…
- Jeremiah 27:16-18 (v7) Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you,…
- Jeremiah 28:3 (v7) Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away…
- Jeremiah 35:1 (v5) The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
- Jeremiah 36:1 (v5) In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Jeremiah 36:27-32 (v5) Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,…
- Ezekiel 19:5-9 (v6) “ ‘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. He went up…
- Daniel 1:1-2 (v6) In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord gave…
- Daniel 1:2 (v7) The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of…
- Daniel 5:2-4 (v7) Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the…
- Habakkuk 1:5-10 (v6) “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…
- Matthew 1:11-12 (v8) Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon. After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv5, 8 Because he and the people turned not to God…
Because he and the people turned not to God by his first plague, he brought a new upon him, and at length rooted them out.
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2Ch 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Ver. 6. Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar.] See 2Ki 24:1.
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That which was found in him; that crime of rebellion against the king of Babylon, which for a time he kept in his own breast; but when he saw fit, he discovered it, and was convicted of it. See 2Ki 24:1.
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Found in him - That crime of rebellion against the king of Babylon, which for a time he kept in his own breast, but when he saw fit, discovered it, and was convicted of it.
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Verse 6. Came up Nebuchadnezzar] 2Kg 24:1. Archbishop Usher believes that Jehoiakim remained three years after this tributary to the Chaldeans, and that it is from this period that the seventy years' captivity, predicted by Jeremiah, is to be reckoned.
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2Ch 36:6. And bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon — But he did not carry him thither, for Nebuchadnezzar altered his mind, and permitted him to reign at Jerusalem as his tributary, though he carried away, as it follows, some of the vessels of the temple, and also certain principal persons, as we read in the first of Daniel.
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In his temple - Compare “the house of his god” Dan 1:2. Nebuchadnezzars inscriptions show him to have been the special votary of Merodach, the Babylonian Mars. His temple, which the Greeks called the temple of Behus, was one of the most magnificent buildings in Babylon. Its ruins still remain in the vast mound, called Babil, which is the loftiest and most imposing of the “heaps” that mark the site of the ancient city.
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Babylon, but sent him back soon after; (T.) unless he altered his first design, (D.) and slew him disgracefully at Jerusalem. Lyranus. E. C. 4 K. xxiii. 5. --- He allowed him to reign as a vassal other three years, but took Daniel, &c. captives. The seventy years of Jeremias, (xxv. 11.) are to be dated from this event. The year of the world 3402. Usher.
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JEHOIAKIM, REIGNING ILL, IS CARRIED INTO BABYLON. (Ch2 36:5-8)
Jehoiakim . . . did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord--He followed the course of his idolatrous predecessors; and the people, to a great extent, disinclined to the reforming policy of his father, eagerly availed themselves of the vicious license which his lax administration restored. His character is portrayed with a masterly hand in the prophecy of Jeremiah (Jer 22:13-19). As the deputy of the king of Egypt, he departed further than his predecessor from the principles of Josiah's government; and, in trying to meet the insatiable cupidity of his master by grinding exactions from his subjects, he recklessly plunged into all evil.
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5–8 (= 1Es_1:39-42; 2Ki_23:35 to 2Ki_24:7). The Reign of Jehoiakim
5. in Jerusalem] The Chronicler omits his mother’s name (cp. 2Ch_36:2, note) and also the statement that he raised the indemnity imposed by Neco by means of a poll-tax (2Ki_23:35).
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he did that which was evil] Cp. 2Ki_23:37; Jer_22:13-18; Jer_26:20-23; Jer_36:1-32.
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THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM (2Ch_36:5-8). (Comp. 2Ki_23:36 to 2Ki_24:7; 2 Kings 3 Esdr. 1:37-41; Jer_25:26)
(5) Jehoiakim . . . in Jerusalem.—2Ki_23:36, adding the mother’s name. here. So LXX.
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And he did . . . the Lord.—2Ki_23:37, which adds “according to all that his fathers had done.” So LXX.
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.—Nabium-kudurri-uçur (“Nebo guard the crown! “) son of Nabopalassar, who had founded this dynasty by successful revolt against Assyria. His extant inscriptions chiefly relate to palace and temple building. Schrader gives a short inscription from a brick now in the Zürich Museum. “Nabû-Kudurri-uçur, king of Babylon, restorer of Esagili and Ezida [two famous temples], son of Nabû-abala-uçur, King of Babylon am I.” No really historical inscription is known except a fragment relating to his Egyptian campaign in his 37th year (568 B.C. ), and an illegible one on the rocks of Nahr-el-Kelb near Beirut. The LXX. here interpolates the account of Jehoiakim’s three years of vassalage, and his revolt against Nebuchadnezzar, and the other events and reflections contained in 2Ki_24:1-4. The LXX. makes Jehoiakim, instead of Manasseh, “fill Jerusalem with innocent blood,” contrary to the Hebrew text.
And bound him in fetters.—Two bronze (chains), as in 2Ch_33:11.
To carry him to Babylon.—To make him go. It is not said that this intention was carried out. (Comp. 2Ch_33:11, “and carried him to Babylon.”) Nebuchadnezzar, who, according to Jer_46:2, had defeated Necho in a great battle at Carchemish, in the 4th year of Jehoiakim, appears to have left the king of Judah to reign as a vassal-king, after inflicting upon him a severe humiliation. (The LXX., 3 Esdr., Vulg., and Arabic, but not the Syriac, read: “and carried him to Babylon.”) Thenius says this must be the right reading, and then denies its claim to credibility. He further asserts that, “in order to allow ample scope for the fulfilment of the prophecy of Jeremiah” (see Note on 2Ch_36:8), the chronicler has represented Jehoiakim as carried alive to Babylon in the last year of his reign. This statement rests not upon objective historical grounds, but upon subjective prejudices against the chronicler.
Dan_1:1, by a transcriber’s error, puts this first capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim; whereas Nebuchadnezzar only became king in the fourth of Jehoiakim. (2Ki_25:8; Jer_25:1.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv5–8 Here we note the age of Jehoiakim as greater…
Here we note the age of Jehoiakim as greater than that of Jeoahaz, and in the parallel we read that his mother was different.
Vers. 5-8.
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The fortunes of Jehoiakim.
I A NEW KING UPON THE THRONE OF JUDAH. (Ver. 5.)
1. His designation. Eliakim, "Whom God establishes," changed into Jehoiakim, "Jehovah has set up;" not by himself (Cheyne, "Jeremiah: his Life and Times," p. 142), though it would almost seem as if Uzziah had adopted that name instead of Azariah on acceding to the crown, (2Ch_26:1) and Pal had assumed the title Tiglath-Pileser, "Adar is my confidence," on succeeding Shalmaneser of Assyria (Saye, "Fresh Light," etc., p. 126); but by Necho II; (ver. 4 2Ki_23:34) as Mattaniah"s name was changed into Zedekiah by Nebuchadnezzar; (2Ki_24:17) which statements may be harmonized by supposing that "Necho and
2. Nebuchadnezzar treated the vassal kings appointed by them not altogether as slaves, but permitted them to choose themselves the new names, which they only confirmed in token of their supremacy" (Keil).
3. His lineage. The son of Josiah and of Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, supposed to be identical with Arumah, near Shechem. (2Ki 32:3-6) Jehoahaz., whom he succeeded, was his younger brother by a different mother, Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. (2Ki_23:31)
1. His accession.
(1) As to time, when he was twenty-five years of age, which shows he must have been born in his father"s fourteenth year.
(2) As to means, by the help of Necho II, who deposed his usurping brother (ver. 3), partly perhaps because he was a usurper, but partly also, it may be assumed, because the people had elected that brother without having first obtained Necho"s consent.
(3) As to title, he was Josiah"s eldest son, and therefore the crown prince and legal heir to the throne.
4. His character. Bad; modelled upon that of Ahab rather than of Josiah. Jer_22:15, reading of two Septuagint manuscripts, adopted by Cheyne.
(1) Idolatrous: "He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord" (ver. 5), as his half-brother had done. (2Ki_23:32) "He devoted himself with his whole soul to the heathen party, reintroduced all the foreign rites formerly extirpated by Josiah, and added the Egyptian to their number" (Ewald), of which the amplest proof appears in the prophets (Jer_7:9, etc.; Jer_17:2 Jer_19:4, Jer_19:5; Eze_8:9-17)
(2) Violent; in this respect like his brother, compared to a young lion who learnt to catch the prey and devoured men (Eze_19:5, Eze_19:6; of.; (Jer_22:17) the worst examples of his violence being his murder of Urijah the prophet, whom he fetched out of Egypt and slew, (Jer_26:22) and his burning of Jeremiah"s roll, accompanied with an order to arrest the prophet. (Jer_36:23, Jer_36:26)
(3) Luxurious; he strove to excel in cedar, by building for himself a costly palace of ample proportions, with spacious chambers and large windows, celled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Jer_22:14, Jer_22:15) "At another time certainly no one could have blamed Jehoiakim and his nobles for being discontented with the narrow, ill-lighted chambers of Syrian houses; but was this the moment for beautifying Jerusalem when the land was still groaning under Necho"s war-fine?" (Cheyne, "Jeremiah: his Life and Times," p. 141).
(4) Exacting; grinding the faces of his people with severe taxation to pay the tribute to Pharaoh, (2Ki_23:33) and cheating of their hard-earned wages the very labourers who built his palace. (Jer_22:13)
(5) Licentious; abandoning himself to lewdness. (Eze_19:7, margin; RAPC 1Est 1:42) In short, "he remained fixed in the recollections of his countrymen as the last example of those cruel, selfish, luxurious princes, the natural product of Oriental monarchies, the disgrace of the monarchy of David "(Stanley).
1. His reign. Eleven years. Too long for any good it wrought. Judah could hardly have fared worse, had he been uncrowned after three months, as his brother had been.
2. His death. Accounts vary.
(1) The Chronicler does not make it clear whether he was carried to Babylon or not. If he was, (Dan_1:2 RAPC 1Est 1:40) he was probably, like Manasseh, (2Ch_33:13) permitted after a time to return to his own land (Keil, Bertheau, Jamieson), since
(2) according to 2 Kings, (2Ki_24:6) Jehoiakim "slept with his fathers," and, according to the LXX, "was buried in the garden of Uzzah." The addendum of the LXX is obviously non-authentic, and the statement of Scripture seems contradicted by
(3) passages in Jeremiah, which say that Jehoiakim should be "buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem", (Jer_22:19) and that his dead body should be "cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost". (Jer_36:30) The reconciliation, however, of the seeming discrepancy is easy. He may have been slain by the hand of an assassin, and his dead body thereupon cast out unburied (Cheyne); or "he may have perished in a battle with some one of the irregular marauding bands who, according to, (2Ki_24:2) came against him" (Keil, Bahr) and his corpse been left to rot upon the battlefield; or, after being first executed by Nebuchadnezzar and buried with the burial of an ass, his bones may have been collected and interred in the sepulchre of Manasseh (Rawlinson).
II. A NEW ENEMY AT THE GATE OF JERUSALEM. (Ver. 6.)
1. His person. Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar, (Jer_21:2) Nabuchodonosor (LXX), in the inscriptions Nabu-kudurri-usur, meaning "Nebo protect the crown.
2. His descent. A son of Nabopolassar, a general of Sarak, the last King of Nineveh (Ewald), perhaps the viceroy of Babylon (Cheyne). On the fall of Nineveh he founded the new Babylonian empire (B.C. 625-610).
3. His title. King of Babylon. Hitherto the enemies of Jerusalem and Judah had been kings of Egypt (2Ch_12:2 2Ch_36:3) or of Assyria; (2Ch_28:20 2Ch_32:1, 2Ch_32:2) now it is a King of Babylon. According to the canon of Ptolemy, Nebuchadnezzar ascended the throne in B.C. 604; according to Berosus, while crown prince he was, in B.C. 605, despatched by his father "to crush a revolt of the western provinces," in which he was entirely successful, having conquered Syria and Phoenicia as well as Egypt.
4. His invasion. According to Daniel, this occurred in Jehoiakim"s third, (Dan_1:1) the year before Nebuchadnezzar defeated Necho at Carchemish, (Jer_25:1 Jer_46:2) i.e. B.C. 606. The probability is that, either before or immediately after defeating Necho, he proceeded to Jerusalem and received the submission of Jehoiakim, who had up till that time been Necho"s vassal. In order to secure this transference of Jehoialdm"s allegiance, he appears to have both taken the city and put its sovereign in chains, as if, should he prove refractory, to deport him to Babylon, but to have departed from this design on obtaining promise of Jehoiakim"s fealty. This, however, Jehoiakim only kept for three years, (2Ki_24:1) at the end of which he rebelled, Nebuchadnezzar, being occupied with affairs in Babylon, having acceded to the throne only two years prior to Jehoiakim"s revolt, despatched against the rebel several detachments of troops, "bands of Chaldeans," at the same time stirring up the Ammonites, Syrians, and Moabites to harass Judah, (2Ki_24:2) but not himself returning to Jerusalem till five years later, in the reign of Jehoiachin.
III A NEW SPOLIATION OF JEHOVAH"S TEMPLE. (Ver. 7.)
1. The first plundering of the sacred edifice.
(1) By whom? Shishak (Sheshonk) King of Egypt.
(2) When? In the fifth year of Rehoboam, B.C. 971.
(3) To what extent? Total: "He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord: he took all" (2Ch_12:9; 1Ki_14:26)
2. The second plundering of the sacred edifice.
(1) The despoiler. Ahaz King of Judah.
(2) The time. B.C. 734, during the Syro-Ephraimitish invasion.
(3) The reason. To purchase therewith the help of Tiglath-Pileser II against Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Samaria. (2Ch_28:21)
3. The third plundering of the sacred edifice.
(1) The agent, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz.
(2) The act. He took "all the silver found in the house of the Lord and the gold from the doors and pillars of the temple". (2Ki_18:15, 2Ki_18:16)
(3) The object. To give to Sennacherib King of Assyria as tribute-money.
(4) The date. When Sennacherib was encamped at Lachish, B.C. 701.
4. The fourth plundering of the sacred edifice.
(1) The person. Nebuchadnezzar, called King of Babylon, though at the time only crown-prince.
(2) The extent. Partial: "He carried off the vessels of the house of the Lord." Jeremiah (Jer_27:18, Jer_27:20) predicted that the vessels which had been left would one day be carried to Babylon, and would remain there until the return from captivity, when they should again be restored to their place in the temple (cf. ver. 18; (Dan_5:2; Ezr_1:7)
(3) The cause. To punish Judah as well as Jehoiakim, and to ensure their fealty.
(4) The aggravation. The pillaged vessels were transported to Babylon and deposited in "his temple," or "treasure house of his god", (Dan_1:2 RAPC 1Est 1:41) rather than "his palace" (Bertheau). The inscriptions show that Marduk, or Merodach, was Nebuchadnezzar"s patron divinity, that Nebuchadnezzar"s temple was the temple of Merodach at Babylon, which he completely built and restored, and that Nebuchadnezzar himself was, according to his ideas, intensely religions, even calling himself "the heaven-adoring king" ("Records," etc., 5:113, etc.; 7:75, etc.).
LESSONS.
1. The native corruption of the human heart, attested by the wickedcharacters of Josiah"s sons.
2. The impossibility of going on in sin with impunity. W.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v6 came up
came up
See 2Ki 24:1-6; Jer 25:1-9; Dan 1:1; Hab 1:6. This was the first deportation of Judah. See 2Ch 36:15-21, the final deportation:
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv5, 8 twenty-five years old ... eleven years
twenty-five years old ... eleven years
"25 years old ... 11 years" (See: Numbers)
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what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God
Here "sight" represents judgment. Yahweh saw and did not approve of Jehoiakim's actions. AT: "what Yahweh judged to be evil" or "what Yahweh considered to be evil" (See: Metaphor)
attacked him
The word "him" refers to Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim represents either Jerusalem or the nation of Judah. AT: "attacked Jerusalem" or "attacked Judah" (See: Metonymy)
Nebuchadnezzar also carried
Since Nebuchadnezzar was king, he may have had his soldiers do this. AT: "Nebuchadnezzar also had his soldiers carry" (See: Metonymy)
the house of Yahweh
Here the word "house" represents the temple. AT: "the temple of Yahweh" (See: Metonymy)
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36:5 Jehoiakim reigned from 609 to 598 BC. • He did what was evil: Jeremiah characterized his reign as one of self-aggrandizement and injustice (Jer 22:13-17).
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