Eleven Evil Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jerusalem Reign Reigned Reigning Ruling Sight Twenty Twenty-five
36:5 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] {c} evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
(c) Because he and the people did not turn to God by his first plague, he brought a new one on him, and at length rooted them out.
36:1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.
Eleven Evil Eyes Five Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jerusalem Reign Reigned Reigning Ruling Sight Twenty Twenty-Five
Eleven Evil Eyes Five Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jerusalem Reign Reigned Reigning Ruling Sight Twenty Twenty-Five
