Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. Came up Nebuchadnezzar - See the notes on 2 Kings 24:1.
Archbishop Usher believes that Jehoiakim remained three years after this tributary to the Chaldeans, and that it is from this period that the seventy years' captivity, predicted by Jeremiah, is to be reckoned.