2 Kings 24:6

_SO JEHOIAKIM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS: AND JEHOIACHIN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. This phraseology can mean nothing more than that he died, because he was not buried with his royal ancestors; and whether he fell in battle, or his body was subjected to posthumous insults, he was, according to the prediction, Jeremiah 22:19, not honoured with the rites of sepulture (Jeremiah 36:30). JEHOIACHIN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD. The very brief reign of this prince, which lasted only three months, during which be was a humble vassal of the Assyrians, is scarcely deserving to be taken into account, and therefore is no way contradictory to the prophetic menace denounced against his father ...

1-7 If Jehoiakim had served the Lord, he had not been servant to Nebuchadnezzar. If he had been content with his servitude, and true to his word, his condition had been no worse; but, rebelling against Babylon, he plunged himself into more trouble. See what need nations have to lament the sins of their fathers, lest they smart for them. Threatenings will be fulfilled as certainly as promises, if the sinner's repentance prevent not....

Verse 2 Kings 24:6. _JEHOIACHIN HIS SON_] As this man reigned only _three_ _months_ and was a mere _vassal_ to the Babylonians, his reign is scarcely to be reckoned; and therefore Jeremiah says of Jehoiakim, _He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David_, Jeremiah 36:30, for at that time it belonged to the king of Babylon, and Jehoiachin was a mere viceroy or governor. Jehoiachin is called _Jechonias_ in Matthew 1:11....

JEHOIACHIN - Also called Jeconiah and Coniah. Jehoiachin and Jeconiah both mean “Yahweh will establish,” Coniah, “Yahweh establishes.” Probably his original name was Jehoiachin. When he ascended the throne, and was required to take a new name, anxious not to lose the good men contained in his old one, he simply transposed the two elements. Jeremiah shortened this new name from Jeconiah to Coniah, thus cutting off from it the notion of futurity, to imply that that would not be which the name declared would be. In other words, “Yahweh establishes,” but this prince he will not establish....

SO JEHOIAKIM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS,.... He died as they did, but was not buried with them, and indeed had no burial at all, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 22:18 for, falling into the hands of the king of Babylon, he was bound in chains, in order to be carried to Babylon, but died as soon as he came out of Jerusalem, at the gates of which he was cast, and had no burial, 2 Chronicles 36:6. At this time also some of the vessels of the temple were carried away, and put in the idol's temple at Babylon, 2 Chronicles 36:7, and Eupolemus p says, that whatever gold, silver, and brass, were in the temple, were carried away: AND JEHOIACHIN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD; calle

2. JEHOIACHIN AND ZEDEKIAH: THE BEGINNING OF JUDAH'S CAPTIVITY CHAPTER 24 _ 1. Jehoiakim, Servant of Nebuchadnezzar, and His Death (2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6)_ 2. Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6; 2 Chronicles 36:8) 3. The first deportation to Babylon (2 Kings 24:11) 4. Zedekiah, the last king, and his rebellion (2 Kings 24:17) The foe of Judah, the chosen instrument of the Lord to execute His

2 KINGS 23:36 TO 2 KINGS 24:7. JEHOIAKIM. A fuller account of the reign is given by Jeremiah, who consistently opposed the king (see Jeremiah 25-27, 35 f., and especially 2 Kings 22:13). The external events of the time are as follows (p. 60). The Assyrian empire came to an end with the fall of Nineveh, about 606 B.C. In 605 B.C. the Egyptians were utterly defeated and driven out of Syria after the battle of Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2; see 2 Kings 24:7). Nebuchadrezzar succeeded his father in that year, when Jehoiakim transferred his allegiance

SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. Only the fact referred to here. Not the _manner_ of his death and burial, for which see Jeremiah 22:18; Jeremiah 22:19; Jeremiah 36:29; Jeremiah 36:30 It was as foretold. The expression "slept with his fathers" is used even of Ahab; and every king of Judah whose _death_ is recorded is said also to have been _buried,_ except Jehoiakim. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16....

_Jehoiakim slept with his fathers_ How the violent death which the prophet foretold came about the history makes no record. Whether he fell in fight with the numberless invaders, or, as seems suggested by the form of the prophecies quoted in the previous note, was slain by his own subjects and his body cast forth from the city we cannot decide. No mention is made of any burial....

JEHOIAKIM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS— It is plain that this expression can signify no more than that he _died_ as his fathers did; for he neither died in his bed, nor was he buried with his fathers, but lay above ground, unburied, according to the prediction of Jeremiah, ch. Jeremiah 36:30....