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2 Chroncles 36:8-9 -- [8] Jehoiachin son [of Jehoiakim] reigned in his stead. [9] Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. | 2 Chroncles 36:8-9 -- [8] Jehoiachin son [of Jehoiakim] reigned in his stead. [9] Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. | ||
====Josephus, Jewish Antiquities==== | |||
Ant X 11:2 -- But now, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Merodach his son succeeded in the kingdom, who immediately set Jeconiah at liberty, and esteemed him among his most intimate friends. He also gave him many presents, and made him honorable above the rest of the kings that were in Babylon; for his father had not kept his faith with Jeconiah, when he voluntarily delivered up himself to him, with his wives and children, and his whole kindred, for the sake of his country, that it might not be taken by siege, and utterly destroyed. | |||
==Jehoiachin in Scholarship== | ==Jehoiachin in Scholarship== | ||
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Jehoiachin (Jeconiah; 6th cent. BCE) was a King of Judah, from the House of David, who was deported to Babylon by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 598/597 BCE.
Biography
Jehoiachin in ancient sources
2 Kings
24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
Jeremiah
52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
Ezekiel
Ez 1:2 -- In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity...
2 Chronicles
2 Chroncles 36:8-9 -- [8] Jehoiachin son [of Jehoiakim] reigned in his stead. [9] Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ant X 11:2 -- But now, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Merodach his son succeeded in the kingdom, who immediately set Jeconiah at liberty, and esteemed him among his most intimate friends. He also gave him many presents, and made him honorable above the rest of the kings that were in Babylon; for his father had not kept his faith with Jeconiah, when he voluntarily delivered up himself to him, with his wives and children, and his whole kindred, for the sake of his country, that it might not be taken by siege, and utterly destroyed.
Jehoiachin in Scholarship
Jehoiachin in Fiction
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