In 588, and in July, 586, the walls were breached and the city plundered. Placed Jehoiachin's uncle, Zedekiah, on the throne in Jerusalem, but withinįive or six years he too rebelled. Including Ezekiel, were exiled to Babylon, where they joined those who hadīeen exiled in Jehoiakim's 'third year' (see Da 1:1 and note). Jehoiakim's son Jehoiachin and about 10,000 Jews (see 2Ki 24:14), Nebuchadnezzar soon responded by sending a force against Jerusalem, subduing Met in a standoff battle, Jehoiakim rebelled against his new overlord. When a few years later the Egyptian and Babylonian forces Year, Nebuchadnezzar was elevated to the Babylonian throne and Jehoiakim shiftedĪllegiance to him. (see Jer 46:2), then pressed south as far as the Philistine plain. In 605 the Babylonians overwhelmed the Egyptian army at Carchemish Neco installed Jehoiakim, another son of Josiah, as his royal vassal in Jerusalem Jehoahaz, a son of Josiah, ruled Judah for only three months, after which To intercept the Egyptian forces but was crushed, losing his life in the battle Of Judah, who may have been an ally of Babylon as King Hezekiah had been, attempted Neco II of Egypt marched north to assist the Assyrians and to try to reassertĮgypt's age-old influence over Canaan and Aram (Syria). In 612 the great Assyrian city of Ninevehįell to a combined force of Babylonians and Medes.

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