Discovery Box2 Kings 24:1-4 
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 24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. 5 24:4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them. 6
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 “Certainly according to the word of the
6 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the
