King of Judah, son of Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin
Named in 22 verses across 7 books, first in 2 Kings 24:6.
יְהוֹיָכִיןJehoiachin
יוֹיָכִיןJehoiachin
יְכוֹנְיָהJeconiah
כׇּנְיָהוּConiah
שַׁלּוּםShallum
ἸεχονίαςJechoniah
Also called Jeconiah, Coniah, Shallum, Jechoniah.
The name means “preparation, or strength, of the Lord.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869
About Jehoiachin Written by AI
Jehoiachin, also referred to as Jeconiah, Coniah, or Shallum, was a king of Judah who reigned for a brief period of three months and ten days (2 Chronicles 36:9). He was the son of King Jehoiakim and ascended to the throne at the age of eighteen (2 Kings 24:8). However, during his reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon besieged Jerusalem, and Jehoiachin surrendered to him (2 Kings 24:12). As a result, Jehoiachin, along with his family, nobles, and skilled workers, was taken captive to Babylon (2 Kings 24:15 to 16; Jeremiah 24:1; Ezekiel 1:2). Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin's uncle, Mattaniah (later renamed Zedekiah), as the new king of Judah (2 Kings 24:17; Jeremiah 37:1). During his captivity in Babylon, Jehoiachin was imprisoned for 37 years until Evil-merodach, the new king of Babylon, released him and treated him kindly (2 Kings 25:27 to 30; Jeremiah 52:31 to 34). Jehoiachin's descendants, including Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, are mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ (1 Chronicles 3:17; Matthew 1:11 to 12). The prophet Jeremiah prophesied about Jehoiachin, referring to him as "Coniah" and declaring that none of his descendants would prosper on the throne of David (Jeremiah 22:24 to 30). Despite this prophecy, Jehoiachin's release from prison and the favor shown to him by the Babylonian king suggest that God had not forgotten him or his family.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897
Succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight years of age, and reigned for one hundred days (2 Chr. 36:9). He is also called Jeconiah (Jer. 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; Jer. 52:28). After an imprisonment of thirty-seven years (Jer. 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).
M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.
Where the Bible names him
- 2 Kings 24:6
And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 24:8
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
- 2 Kings 24:15
Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:27
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 1 Chronicles 3:16
The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
- 1 Chronicles 3:17
The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,
- 2 Chronicles 36:8
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Esther 2:6
He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.
- Jeremiah 22:11
For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
- Jeremiah 22:24
“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 27:20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 28:4
And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
- Jeremiah 29:2
(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
- Jeremiah 37:1
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
- Jeremiah 52:31
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
- Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
- Matthew 1:11
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
- Matthew 1:12
After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
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