(5.) Nehemiah 12:42.
(6.) Nehemiah 12:13.
- JEHOIACHIN succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight
years of age, and reigned for one hundred days (2 Chronicles 36:9). He is
also called Jeconiah (Jeremiah 24:1; 27:20, etc.), and Coniah (22:24; 37:1).
He was succeeded by his uncle, Mattaniah = Zedekiah (q.v.). He was the
last direct heir to the Jewish crown. He was carried captive to Babylon by
Nebuchadnezzar, along with the flower of the nobility, all the leading men
in Jerusalem, and a great body of the general population, some thirteen
thousand in all (2 Kings 24:12-16; Jeremiah 52:28). After an imprisonment
of thirty-seven years (Jeremiah 52:31, 33), he was liberated by
Evil-merodach, and permitted to occupy a place in the king’s household
and sit at his table, receiving “every day a portion until the day of his
death, all the days of his life” (52:32-34). - JEHOIADA Jehovah-known. (1.) The father of Benaiah, who was one of
David’s chief warriors (2 Samuel 8:18; 20:23).
(2.) The high priest at the time of Athaliah’s usurpation of the throne of
Judah. He married Jehosheba, or Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king
Jehoram (2 Chronicles 22:11), and took an active part along with his wife
in the preservation and training of Jehoash when Athaliah slew all the
royal family of Judah.
The plans he adopted in replacing Jehoash on the throne of his ancestors
are described in 2 Kings 11:2; 12:2; 2 Chronicles 22:11; 23:24. He was
among the foremost of the benefactors of the kingdom, and at his death
was buried in the city of David among the kings of Judah (2 Chronicles
24:15, 16). He is said to have been one hundred and thirty years old.
- JEHOIAKIM he whom Jehovah has set up, the second son of Josiah, and
eighteenth king of Judah, which he ruled over for eleven years (B.C.
610-599). His original name was Eliakim (q.v.).
On the death of his father his younger brother Jehoahaz (=Shallum,
Jeremiah 22:11), who favoured the Chaldeans against the Egyptians, was
made king by the people; but the king of Egypt, Pharaoh-necho, invaded
the land and deposed Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:33, 34; Jeremiah 22:10-12),
setting Eliakim on the throne in his stead, and changing his name to
Jehoiakim.