Bible Cross References
Jehoiakim
2 Kings 23:36
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from the town of Rumah.
2 Kings 23:37
Following the example of his ancestors, Jehoiakim sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:13-19
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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.
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So then, the LORD says about Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "No one will mourn his death or say, 'How terrible, my friend, how terrible!' No one will weep for him or cry, 'My lord! My king!'
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With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."
Jeremiah 26:21-23
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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.)
Jeremiah 36:1
In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,
Jeremiah 36:27-32
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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.