“I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.”
The statement that God spoke to the king in his prosperity, but the king did not listen, shows that this judgment comes despite repeated warnings. The rejection of God's word during times of peace and security shows the king's habitual disobedience. The phrase about not listening from youth suggests that Jehoiakim's rejection of God's counsel is a lifelong pattern, not a recent development.
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