The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

These events, as we shall see? actunlly took plncc In615' B. C.-Jehoiak-im's eleventh ear-and included(1) the attack by Nebucl>adnezzar tl~ree years afterJehoiakirn began paying trzbzlte (620 73. C.) ; (2) thetaking of some of the Temple vessels to Babylon in617 R. C. when Jelloialiim's eleventh-year and Jehoinchin'sthree-months reigns were forclbly ended by Nebnchadnezzar(lily R. C.) ; and (3) the first taking ofthe first captives to Baby1011 at the saine time. Tli~was eleven years before the final capt~vlty and the beginningof the "desolation" of the la~~cl.The foreign relnt~ons of Jeho~atim tvcre briefly a3f olloms :For eight years (625-620 B. C.) he \\-as tl-~l~utarjr toEgypt or at least non-tributary to Ealn lon : "And Pharaoh-nechohmade Ellakiln the son of Jos~ali k~ng mthe room of Josinh his father, and tunled 111s name toJchoiakun. . . . And dchoiaI