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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 24:1–7, “In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, 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 the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets. Surely at the commandment of the LORD 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; which the LORD 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 river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.”
Nebuchadnezzar had gone down to Egypt and defeated the Egyptians. This was the last time that Egypt was an independent, sovereign nation ruled by the ancient Egyptians. After the Babylonians took control of Egypt, the Persians followed them and then the Greeks. The modern Egyptians are descended from other conquerors and the ancient Egyptians, the Copts, are a persecuted minority. In fact, Egypt is actually a Greek word. Nebuchadnezzar came back to Judah and took control of the nation. When Nebuchadnezzar went back to his own kingdom, Judah was attacked by bands of marauders from the surrounding nations. The Lord began to impose the most severe penalty clauses of the contract. Jehoiakim, the king, eventually died and was replaced by his son Jehoiachin. A record of this reign was kept in the official archives of the kings of Judah.
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