American Standard Version
"and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon. "
— 2 Kings 24:4, American Standard Version
“And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”
“and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.”
“Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.”
“And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.”
“And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.”
“And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
Surely at the commandment of Jehovah came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.