2Ki 23:31-24:20, 1Ch 3:15-17, 2Ch 36:1-8, Jer 2:10-28 | TSK | STEP

‏ 2 Kings 23:31-37

Jehoahaz.

Shallum. Hamutal.

put him.

Riblah.Theodoret (in Jer ch. 46,) expressly affirms that Riblah or Reblatha was in his time called Emesa. [Kome de estin he Reblatha tes nun kaloumenes Emeses.] Emesa was a city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and, according to the Antonine Itinerary, 18 miles from Laodicea ad Libanum. It is now called Homs, or Hems, about eight hours, or twenty-four miles S.E. of Hamah or Hamath, in the road to Damascus. The present town only occupies about one quarter of the space contained within the ancient walls, which apparently date from the time of the Saracens. Here is nothing remarkable, except a Roman sepulchre, and a large castle in ruins.

25:6; Nu 34:11; Jer 39:5,6; 52:9,10,26,27

Hamath.

Nu 13:21; 1Ki 8:65

that he might not reign. or, because he reigned. put, etc.Heb. set a mulct upon the land.

18:14; Ex 21:22; 2Ch 36:3; Pr 19:19

Eliakim.

Jos 18:18; 2Ch 36:3,4

the son.

1Ch 3:15

turned.

24:17; Ge 41:45; Da 1:7

Jehoiakim."Called Jakim, Mt 1:11."

he came.

Jer 22:11,12; Eze 19:3,4

the silver.

taxed.

15:19,20

A.M. 3394-3405. B.C. 610-599. Jehoiakim.

1Ch 3:15; 2Ch 36:5; Jer 1:3

Rumah.Josephus here reads Abuma; but he also speaks of Ruma, a village of Galilee.

he did.

Jer 22:13-17; 26:20-23; 36:23-26,31; Eze 19:5-9

all that.

2Ch 28:22-25; 33:4-10,22,23

‏ 2 Kings 24

1 Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procures his own ruin.

5 Jehoiachin succeeds him.

7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon.

8 Jehoiachin's evil reign.

10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon.

17 Zedekiah is made king, and reigns ill, unto the utter destruction of Judah.

his days.

17:5; 2Ch 36:6-21; Jer 25:1,9; 46:2; Da 1:1

Nebuchadnezzar.This prince, so famous in the writings of the prophets, was the son of Nabopollasar king of Babylon.

the Lord.

6:23; 13:20,21; De 28:49,50; 2Ch 33:11; Job 1:17; Isa 7:17; 13:5

Jer 35:11; Eze 19:8

according.

20:17; 21:12-14; 23:27; Isa 6:11,12; Jer 25:9; 26:6,20; 32:28

Mic 3:12

his. Heb. the hand of his.

Surely.

18:25; Ge 50:20; 2Ch 24:24; 25:16; Isa 10:5,6; 45:7; 46:10,11

Am 3:6

remove them.

23:26,27; Le 26:33-35; De 4:26,27; 28:63; 29:28; Jos 23:15

Jer 15:1-4; Mic 2:10

for the sins.

21:2-11; Ex 20:5

for the innocent.

21:16; Nu 35:33; De 19:10; Jer 2:34; 19:4

he filled.

Ps 106:38

which.

Jer 15:1,2; La 3:42; Eze 33:25

the rest.

2Ch 36:8; Jer 22:13-17; 26:1-36:32

A.M. 3405. B.C. 599. sleptAs Jehoiakim was "buried with the burial of an ass," by being "drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem," without internment, the expression "slept with his fathers," can only mean that the died, or slept the sleep of death. In the East, a body exposed during the night would be a prey to wild animals; if any of it were left till the morning, the carnivorous birds would devour it.

2Ch 36:6,8; Jer 22:18,19; 36:30

Jehoiachin.As this man reigned only three months, and was a mere vassal of the king of Babylon, his reign is scarcely reckoned; and therefore Jeremiah (ch. 31:30) says of Jehoiakim, "he shall have none to sit upon the throne of David."

the king.

Jer 37:5-7; 46:2

from the river.

Ge 15:18; Nu 34:5; Jos 15:4; 1Ki 4:21; Isa 27:12

Jehoiachin.

1Ch 3:16; Jer 24:1

Jeconiah.

Jer 22:24,28; 37:1

Coniah.

Mt 1:11,12

Jechonias.

eighteen years.In the parallel place, he is said to be only eight years old; but this must be a mistake, for we find that having reigned only three months, he was carried captive to Babylon, and there had wives; and had he been of such a tender age, it could scarcely have been said that, as a king, "he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord."

2Ch 36:9

At that time.

Da 1:1,2

was besieged. Heb. came into siege.

25:2

Jehoiachin.

2Ch 36:10; Jer 24:1; 29:1,2; 38:17,18; Eze 17:12

officers. or, eunuchs. took him.

25:27; Jer 52:28,31

eigth year."Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year."

Jer 25:1; 52:28

he carried.

20:17; Isa 39:6; Jer 20:5

and cut.

25:13-15; Ezr 1:7-11; Jer 27:16-21; 28:3,4,6; Da 5:2,3

which Solomon.

1Ki 7:48-50; 2Ch 4:7-22

all.That is, all the chief men, the nobles, and the artificers. Among these were 7,000 mighty men, and 1,000 craftsmen and smiths.

Jerusalem.

2Ch 36:9,10; Jer 24:1-5; 52:28; Eze 1:1,2

craftsmen. So

1Sa 23:19-22

the poorest sort.

25:12; Jer 39:10; 40:7; 52:16; Eze 17:14

he carried.

8; 2Ch 36:10; Es 2:6; Jer 22:24-28

officers. or, eunuchs.

seven thousand.

Jer 29:2; 52:28

the king.

2Ch 36:10,11; Jer 37:1; 52:1

his father's brother.He was son of Josiah, brother to Jehoiakim, and uncle of Jehoiachin.

1Ch 3:15,16; 2Ch 36:10

changed.The change of name was to shew Nebuchadnezzar's supremacy, and that Zedekiah was only his vassal or viceroy. The custom of changing names, we are assured by travellers, still exists in the East.

23:34; 2Ch 36:4

A.M. 3405-3416. B.C. 599-588. Zedekiah.

2Ch 36:11; Jer 37:1; 52:1-11

Hamutal.

23:31

And he did.

23:37; 2Ch 36:12; Jer 24:8; 37:1-38:28; Eze 21:25

through.

22:17; Ex 9:14-17; De 2:30; Isa 19:11-14; 1Co 1:20; 2Th 2:9-11

Zedekiah.

2Ch 36:13; Jer 27:12-15; 38:17-21; Eze 17:15-20

‏ 1 Chronicles 3:15-17

Jeconiah.

2Ki 24:6,8; 25:27; 2Ch 36:9

Jehoiachin.

Jer 22:24,28

Coniah.

Mt 1:11

Jechonias. Zedekiah.As the sons of Jeconiah are enumerated in the succeeding verse, and as Zedekiah is no where else mentioned as the son of Jeconiah, but as the son of Josiah, it is highly probable that son here means successor.

15; 2Ki 24:17

being his uncle.

Assir.As Salathiel was not the son of Assir, but of Jeconiah, it is probable that the word {assir,} which signifies a prisoner, is an ephithet applied to Jeconiah, who was a long time prisoner at Babylon.

Salathiel.

Ezr 3:2,8; 5:2

Shealtiel.

Mt 1:12