died it was his younger brother Shallum that was the peoples choice for king. second son of Josiah king of Judah, his mother was Zebudah, the daughter of
The Babylonians appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle as king in Judah: Yet at the same time we know, from administrative texts referring to the food rations that Jehoiachin and his sons were assigned in prison, that the Babylonians themselves continued to refer to Jehoiachin as the king of Judah, even while he and his sons were incarcerated.
The texts can also be accessed on the Wikipedia entry for “Jehoiachin’s Rations Tablets.”. Jehoiakim had submitted to king Nechoh in the last lesson. *shrug*. ), thus allowing us to frame Jehoiachin’s reign as encompassing the months of Kislev, Tevet, and Shevat at the juncture of the years 598–597 B.C.E.[10].
[8] The seventh regnal year of Nebuchadrezzar falls in the period from the beginning of Nisan 598 through the end of Adar 597. would explain the discrepancy between 2 Ch 36:9 and 2 Ki 24:8 where he is cited
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can learn from these examples of direct practical benefit, we are not kings and 119–120. The much-debated last paragraph of the Book of Kings tells of Jehoiachin’s eventual release from prison (2 Kings 25:27–30): The new Babylonian king Evil-merodach (Akkadian Amel-Marduk), who succeeded his father Nebuchadrezzar, declared an immediate amnesty for Jehoiachin. Shemaiah’s machinations against Jeremiah along with Jeremiah’s reaction are reported in God’s rebuke to Shemaiah, which he tells Jeremiah (Jer. illuminating. An exception can be made for music videos.". of Jehoiakim's problem; it wasn't that he didn't know the ways of God it is [11] We do not know if the Babylonian practice of recognizing two kings of Judah was intended to have a “divide and conquer” effect, or if it was designed to impress upon Zekediah—the king of Nebuchadrezzar’s own choice, as the Babylonian Chronicle puts it—that he was essentially ruling on probation. was later re-instated as a vassal king of Babylon. I'm not seeing where you're getting that from. ), Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005), pp.
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He is the author of Chronological Displacement in Biblical and Related Literatures. It seems that Jehoahaz would've had to have been older than Zedekiah.
Eleven years before Judah was destroyed, King Jehoiachin and a select group of Judeans were sent into exile, and Zedekiah was left to rule Judah.
window.location.replace(""); Rijksmuseum.nl. The optimism expressed in this passage stands in stark contrast to Jeremiah’s words of unmitigated doom toward Jehoiachin and his descendants.[20].