5 Yehoyakim was twenty-five when he became king and he reigned from Yerushalem for eleven years. He did many things that Yahweh had said were evil.[ref] 6 Babylonia’s King Nebuchadnezzar (Heb. Nevukadnetstsar) attacked and captured Yehoyakim and took him to Babylon in bronze chains,[ref] 7 along with some items from Yahweh’s temple that were taken to Babylon and placed in the king’s temple there.

8 The record of all the other things done by Yehoyakim while he was king and the disgusting activities he did was written on the scroll ‘The kings of Yisrael and Yehudah’, and his son Yehoyakin replaced him as king.