2 Kings 24:8

_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._ Jehoiachin - i:e., God appointed; contracted into Jeconiah and Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24). EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN. At the age of eight his father took him into partnership in the government (2 Chronicles 36:9). He began to reign alone at eighteen....

8-20 Jehoiachin reigned but three months, yet long enough to show that he justly smarted for his fathers' sins, for he trod in their steps. His uncle was intrusted with the government. This Zedekiah was the last of the kings of Judah. Though the judgments of God upon the three kings before him might have warned him, he did that which was evil, like them. When those intrusted with the counsels of a nation act unwisely, and against their true interest, we ought to notice the displeasure of God in it. It is for the sins of a people that God hides from them the things that belong to the public peace. And in fulfilling the secret purposes of his justice, the Lord needs only leave men to the blindness of their own minds, or to the lusts of their own hearts. The gradual approach of Divine judgments affords sinners space for repentance, and believers leisure to prepare for meeting the calamity,...

Verse 2 Kings 24:8. _JEHOIACHIN WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD_] He is called _Jeconiah_, 1 Chronicles 3:16, and _Coniah_, Jeremiah 22:24. In 2 Chronicles 36:9, be is said to be only _eight_ years of age, but this must be a mistake; for we find that, having reigned only _three_ months, he was carried captive to Babylon, and there he had _wives_; and it is very improbable that a child between _eight_ and _nine_ years of age could have _wives_; and of such a tender age, it can scarcely be said that, as a _king_, he _did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord_. The pl...

HIS MOTHER’S NAME - On the position of the “queen mother” see 1 Kings 15:10 note. Nehushta’s rank and dignity are strongly marked by the distinct and express mention which is made of her in almost every place where her son’s history is touched (2 Kings 24:12; compare Jeremiah 22:26; Jeremiah 29:2)....

JEHOIACHIN WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN,.... In 2 Chronicles 36:9 he is said to be but eight years old; which may be reconciled by observing, that he might be made and declared king by his father, in the first year of his reign, who reigned eleven years, so that he was eight years old when he began to reign with him, and eighteen when he began to reign alone q. Dr. Lightfoot r gives another solution of this difficulty, that properly speaking he was eighteen years old when he began to reign, but, in an improper sense, the son of eight years, or the eighth year, as the Hebrew phrase is; that is, he fell in the lot of the eighth year of the captivity of Judah, which was in the latter end of the third, or the beginning of the fourth of his father's reign, and the first of Nebuchadnezzar's, and it was now in the eighth of Nebuchadnezzar that he was king, see...

EIGHTEEN Compare (2 Chronicles 36:9); ( 1Co_ 10:8). (_ See Scofield) - ( 1Co_ 10:8). _...

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 24:8. JEHOIACHIN AND THE FIRST CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH. The name of this king is also given as Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24) and Jeconiah (Jeremiah 29:2). Evidently Babylon's vengeance for his father's treachery fell on him. 2 Kings 24:8. Eighteen years old: 2 Chronicles 36:9 has eight, an obvious error, for Jehoaichin was evidently grown up (Jeremiah 22:28). The Captivity dates from his reign, and he is considered the last of the kings of J

JEHOIACHIN. Called also Coniah and Jeconiah (Jeremiah 22:24; Jeremiah 24:1). EIGHTEEN. This was his age. In 2 Chronicles 36:9 he is said to be eight. See note there. THREE MONTHS. Is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for three months and ten days. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:9....

Reign of Jehoiachin. Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Plunder and captives carried away: Zedekiah made king of Judah (2 Chronicles 36:9-10) 8. _Jehoiachin_was _eighteen years old_ The Chronicler says _eight_. The letter which is required to make the difference is the smallest in the Hebrew alphabet, and may easily have fallen out by a slip of the copyist. That -eighteen" is the correct number may be concluded because (see verse 15) Jehoiachin had _wives_, which would hardly be the case at _eight_. To the -three months" of the king's reign here set down, the Chronicler adds -and ten days", probably having before him a precise record. Though after the last reign we come no more upon quotations from the chronicles of the kings of Israel and Judah. Jehoiachin is called _Jeconiah_in...