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Person

Jehoiachin

Also called Jeconiah, Coniah, Jechonias

Mentioned in 21 verses across 7 books, first in 2 Kings 24:6. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

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At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 616 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Historians also date this period from evidence outside the Bible, and their dates can differ from this reckoning.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Children

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Jehoiakim8 verses
God4 verses
Nebuchadnezzar4 verses
Evil-merodach2 verses
Josiahson of Amon2 verses
Shealtiel2 verses
Elnathan1 verse
Zedekiahson of Jehoiachin1 verse
Zedekiahson of Josiah1 verse
Nehushta1 verse
Zerubbabel1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Babylondied here11 shared verses
Jerusalemborn here; scene of “Reign of Jeconiah”7 shared verses

In the Bible

The first 10 of 21 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Kings

2 Kings 24:6
And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2 Kings 24:8
Jehoiachin 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.
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
2 Kings 24:15
Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:27
On 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.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 3:16
The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
1 Chronicles 3:17
The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 36:8
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin 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.

Esther

Esther 2:6
He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

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Events

Events the dataset lists Jehoiachin as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 598 BC
Reign of Jeconiah2 Kings 24:8–17 · at Jerusalem

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight years of age, and reigned for one hundred days (2 Chr. 36:9). He is also called Jeconiah (Jer. 24:1; 27:20, etc.), and Coniah (22:24; 37:1). He was succeeded by his uncle, Mattaniah = Zedekiah (q.v.). He was the last direct heir to the Jewish crown. He was carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, along with the flower of the nobility, all the leading men in Jerusalem, and a great body of the general population, some thirteen thousand in all (2 Kings 24:12-16; Jer. 52:28). After an imprisonment of thirty-seven years (Jer. 52:31, 33), he was liberated by Evil-merodach, and permitted to occupy a place in the king’s household and sit at his table, receiving “every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life” (52:32-34).