Category:Jehoiachin (subject)
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.
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Jehoiachin in ancient sources
2 Kings
2 Kings 24:6-17 -- [6] So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead... [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. [9] He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father had done. [10] At that time the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. [11] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. [12] King Jehoiachin of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign... [15] And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the elite of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon... [17] The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 25:27-30 (NRSV) -- [27] In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison; [28] he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the other seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. [29] So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes. Every day of his life he dined regularly in the king’s presence. [30] For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion every day, as long as he lived.
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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