The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
- KJV And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
- NKJV The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son and Zedekiah his son.
- NASB The sons of Jehoiakim were his son Jeconiah and his son Zedekiah.
- NLT The successors of Jehoiakim were his son Jehoiachin and his brother Zedekiah.
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Jehoiakim's descendants were Jeconiah and Zedekiah. It carries the royal line into the exile.
Overview
Jeconiah (also called Jehoiachin or Coniah) was taken captive to Babylon (2 Kings 24:15). Though Jeremiah pronounced judgment on his line (Jeremiah 22:30), God preserved the family, and Jeconiah appears in Jesus' genealogy (Matthew 1:11-12). This shows God's grace overcoming judgment to keep His promise to David through Christ.
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- 2 Kgs 24:6And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- Matt 1:11and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
- 2 Kgs 24:17Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
- 2 Kgs 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
- Jer 22:24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- 2 Kgs 25:27On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 2 Chr 36:9Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jer 22:28Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- 1 Chr 3:15The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
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