Daniel 1:1

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In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and attacked it.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule, and he was king for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zebidah, daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.

2 Kings 24:13

He also took away all the treasures in the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. As the Lord had predicted, Nebuchadnezzar stripped the gold off all the furnishings that King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple.

Isaiah 39:7

Some of your own descendants will be taken away. They will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

Jeremiah 25:1

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah when Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was in his fourth year as king. (This was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.)

Jeremiah 35:1

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah during the reign of Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah of Judah. He said,

Jeremiah 35:11

But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded this land, we said, ‘Let’s go to Jerusalem ⌞to escape⌟ the Babylonian and Aramean armies.’ That’s why we are living in Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 36:1

In the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah of Judah, the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said,

Jeremiah 45:1

This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah. Baruch wrote these things on a scroll as Jeremiah dictated them during the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah. Jeremiah said,

Jeremiah 50:1

This is the message that the Lord spoke about Babylon and the land of the Babylonians through the prophet Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 52:12

On the tenth day of the fifth month of Nebuchadnezzar’s nineteenth year as king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, who was the captain of the guard and an officer of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:28

These are the people Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 Jews.

Daniel 5:13

So Daniel was taken to the king. The king asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the captives that my grandfather brought from Judah?