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+title = "2 Chronicles 36:1–14"
+date = "2025-09-25"
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles36.1-14)
+
+After Josiah, three of the last four kings of Judah were his sons.
+The people set up Jehoahaz as the king after Josiah's death, which tells us that Josiah really did not expect to die in the battle with the Egyptians.
+Furthermore, Jehoahaz was not the oldest son, as might be expected.
+I suspect they chose him because he was the one that would more closely follow his father's faith in the Lord, but it's hard to say.
+Jehoahaz was not given much time to prove himself, because Neco came back to Judah and deposed him three months later.
+Neco captured Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.
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+In his place, the older brother Eliakim was set up as a vassal king, and his name was changed to Jehoiakim.
+Tribute was sent to the Egyptians, who desparately needed it after losing to the Babylonians at Carchemish.
+This arrangement lasted for eleven years, and during that time Jehoiakim did not follow the God of his father.
+Perhaps he was trying to appease his Egyptian overlords.
+Maybe he thought Yahweh had not done enough for his people before.
+We aren't told his motivations, or even what evil deeds he did.
+
+Nebuchadnezzar, now king of Babylon, brought his army south on his way to deal with Egypt further.
+Judah, being a vassal state of Egypt, became a target, and the Babylonians captured Jehoiakim and took him back to Babylon.
+Jehoiachin his son reigned after him, for only three months and ten days.
+The grandson of Josiah followed his father's ways and did not seek the Lord.
+He, too, was taken to Babylon, along with more of the precious furnishings of the temple.
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+Zedekiah, son of Josiah, was made king as a vassal to the Babylonians.
+He was only a few years older than his nephew Jehoiachin.
+He reigned for eleven years, during the ministry of the prophet Jeremiah.
+Not only did he not listen to Jeremiah, but "all the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful". (_v. 14_)
+The curses of the covenant the people made with the Lord are just about ready to be placed upon them.
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+You are our hope that is more sure than kings, armies, and empires.