2 Kings 24:8

Reign of Jehoiachin. Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Plunder and captives carried away: Zedekiah made king of Judah (2 Chronicles 36:9-10)

8. Jehoiachinwas 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 Jeconiahin Jeremiah 24:1, and Coniahin Jeremiah 22:24; Jeremiah 22:28. For the double form compare Osheaand Jehoshua(Numbers 13:16).

Elnathan of Jerusalem Almost certainly the same person who is called -Elnathan the son of Achbor" (Jeremiah 26:22) and who was sent by Jehoiakim with a party of men into Egypt to fetch thence Urijah the prophet, whom Jehoiakim caused to be put to death. The name also occurs among the princes in the account of Jeremiah's roll (Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:25). He was one of those who made intercession with the king not to burn it.