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Yahweh sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as Yahweh had predicted through his servants the prophets. Without a doubt, this happened to Judah because Yahweh had commanded it to happen. He wanted to remove the people of Judah from his sight because of Manasseh’s sins—everything he had done, including the innocent blood he had shed. He had a lot of innocent people in Jerusalem killed, and Yahweh refused to forgive him.

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The Lord sent Babylonian,[a](A) Aramean,(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders(C) against him to destroy(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.(E) Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord’s command,(F) in order to remove them from his presence(G) because of the sins of Manasseh(H) and all he had done, including the shedding of innocent blood.(I) For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.(J)

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  1. 2 Kings 24:2 Or Chaldean