The Bible Study Podcast, episode 588. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the

kings of Judah with 2nd Kings 24.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We are wrapping this up. This is the second to the last in a very long series. That will be 78 episodes long when we finish this. This is the 77th episode, which means we've been studying the Kings of Israel and Judah for about a year and a half,

if you've been with me since the beginning.

But today, things start to finally conclude.

We finally get the beginning of the Babylonian captivity.

And it goes like this.

Second Kings 24.

During Jehoa Kim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoakim became his vassal for three years.

But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled.

The Lord sent Babylonian, Armenian, Moabite, and Amonite raiders against him to to destroy Judah in accordance with the word of the Lord

proclaimed by his servants the prophets. Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord's

command in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done,

including the shedding of innocent blood, for he had filled Jerusalem

with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive. As for the other events of Jehoakim's

reign, and all he did are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

Johoakim rested with his ancestors, and Jehoechin, his son, succeeded him as king.

The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Jehoichi, king of Judah.

Jehoachin was 18 years old when he became king, and he reigned in

Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehoshhta, daughter of Elnathan. She was from Jerusalem.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father had done. At the time, the officers of Nebuchadnezzar,

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