Then the king of Babylon appointed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
1 Chronicles 3:16 - Tree of Life Version The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah was 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. |
Then the king of Babylon appointed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnatan of Jerusalem.
Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from Prison.
The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
Adonai, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through His messengers again and again, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of Adonai.
“As I live,” declares Adonai, “even if Coniah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off,
Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot— a jar with no delight in it? Why are he and his seed cast out into the land they do not know?
Now Zedekiah son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah son of Jehoiakim, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
and Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.