The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
1 Chronicles 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) his son, Zedekiah his son. American Standard Version (1901) And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. Common English Bible Jehoiakim’s family: his son Jeconiah and his son Zedekiah. Catholic Public Domain Version From Jehoiakim was born Jeconiah and Zedekiah. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias. |
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors; then his son Jehoiachin succeeded him.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison;
The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
As I live, says the Lord, even if King Coniah son of Jehoiakim of Judah were the signet ring on my right hand, even from there I would tear you off
Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?
Zedekiah son of Josiah, whom King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, succeeded Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.