^{5 Ref} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

^{6 Ref} Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

^{7 Ref} And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.