Some of the details are obscure. We know that Nebuchadnezzar “bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon” (2 Chron. 36:6). Again, Jehoiakim was to be “buried with the burial of an ass ... beyond the gates of Jerusalem” (Jer. 22:19), and his dead body was to be “cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost” (Jer. 36:30). The two statements can be harmonized by assuming that the plan to take Jehoiakim to Babylon was abandoned, or that he died soon after his capture as a result of rough treatment by the Chaldeans. Some have conjectured that he was taken to Babylon and later released, as was Manasseh in Esarhaddon’s reign (2 Chron. 33:11-13; cf. Eze. 19:5-9).