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The Reign of Jehoiakim
v. 1. In his days, in the fifth or sixth year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up, after he had inflicted a decisive defeat on the Egyptian forces at Carchemish, on the Euphrates, Jer_46:2, and Jehoiakim, after the surrender of Jerusalem,became his servant, his tributary vassal, three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
v. 2. And the Lord sent against him, as a punishment for his sins, bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, not in an organized army at first, but in companies of raiders; for all these nations, while recognizing Nebuchadnezzar's supremacy, took the opportunity of gratifying their own hate against Judah, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according the word of the Lord which He spake to His servants, the prophets, 2Ki_20:17; 2Ki_21:12-14; 2Ki_23:27.
v. 3. Surely at the commandment of the Lord, because God so willed it, as is here once more stated for the sake of emphasis, came this upon Judah to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, his wickedness having polluted the entire nation,
v. 4. and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon, 2Ki_21:16.
v. 5. Now, the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
v. 6. So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, Jer_22:19; Jer_36:30; and Jehoiachin, his son, reigned in his stead.
v. 7. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land, after the decisive defeat on the Euphrates; for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt, all the countries which had become tributary to Egypt. The corruptions of these last days of the world are similar to those preceding the first destruction of Jerusalem, and so the Judgment must be near.