Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name [was] Zebudah, daughter of Pedaiah of Rummah.

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

[Woe to] him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work.

Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.

Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.

And King Jehoiakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to kill him; and Urijah heard [it] and went to Egypt.

and they brought him out, and brought him into the king; and he struck him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulcher of the children of his people.

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king had burnt the scroll, [and] all the words which Baruch had written by the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in here, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and beast shall fail from off it?

And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants; and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they did not heed.