Jehoi´akim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebu´dah, the daughter of Pedai´ah of Rumah.
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoi´akim the son of Josi´ah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrez´zar king of Babylon;
But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrez´zar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chalde´ans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neri´ah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoi´akim the son of Josi´ah king of Judah, saying,
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrez´zar king of Babylon, came Neb´uzar–a´dan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?