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Jehoiakim and Manasseh
How Jehoiakim and Manasseh are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Manasseh was an ancestor of Jehoiakim.
Jehoiakim was Manasseh's great-grandson. When raiders came against Judah in his reign, Kings says they came "for the sins of Manasseh".
Manasseh his son
1 Chronicles 3:13, King James Version
Amon his son, Josiah his son
1 Chronicles 3:14, King James Version
the second Jehoiakim
1 Chronicles 3:15, King James Version
for the sins of Manasseh
2 Kings 24:3, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 24:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Kings 24:1-3
1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
1 Chronicles 3:13
13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles 3:14
14Amon his son, Josiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3:15
15And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
King James Version