King Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim of Judah

King Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim of Judah

Evil reign start to finish during time of Prophets Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel

 

9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of YHVH.

2 Chronicles 36:9

 

6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. 7The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9He did evil in the sight of YHVH, according to all that his father had done.

Deportation to Babylon

10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. 11And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.

2 Kings 24:6-11

 

The seventh year [of Nebuchadnezzar], in the month of Kislimu, the king of Akkad mustered his troops, marched to the Levant, and set up quarters facing the city of Judah [Jerusalem].

Babylonian Chronicle

 

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