Discovery Box2 Kings 24:1-2 
Context24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 2 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 3 24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 4
2 Kings 24:6
Context24:6 He passed away 5 and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
2 Kings 24:12
Context24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered 6 to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, 7 took Jehoiachin 8 prisoner.
1 tn Heb “In his days.”
2 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
3 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
4 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
5 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
6 tn Heb “came out.”
7 sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597
8 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
