Jehoiachin

• Reign of Jeconiahc. 598 BC

Jehoiachin· Coniah· Jeconiah· Jechoniah· Jechonias· Shallum

Father

Jehoiakim

Mother

Nehushta

Children

Shealtiel· Zedekiah

• Ἰεχονίας·Jechoniah
• יְהוֹיָכִין·Jehoiachin
• יוֹיָכִין·Joyachin
• יְכוֹנְיָה·Jeconiahmeans “preparation, or stability, of the Lord”
• כׇּנְיָהוּ·Coniahmeans “strength of the Lord”
• שַׁלּוּם·Shallummeans “perfect; agreeable”

Includes 7 verses that refer to Jehoiachin without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 2 Kings 24:6יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2. 2 Kings 24:8יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   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.
3. 2 Kings 24:9Referred to, not named
   And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
4. 2 Kings 24:12יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   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.
5. 2 Kings 24:15יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   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.
6. 2 Kings 25:27יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   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.
7. 1 Chronicles 3:16יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
   The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
8. 1 Chronicles 3:17יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
   The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,
9. 2 Chronicles 36:8יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
   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.
10. 2 Chronicles 36:9יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
    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.
11. 2 Chronicles 36:10Referred to, not named
    In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
12. Esther 2:6יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
    He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.
13. Jeremiah 22:11שַׁלּוּם · Shallum
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
14. Jeremiah 22:12Referred to, not named
    …but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
15. Jeremiah 22:24כׇּנְיָהוּ · Coniah
    “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.
16. Jeremiah 22:25Referred to, not named
    In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
17. Jeremiah 22:26Referred to, not named
    I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
18. Jeremiah 22:27Referred to, not named
    You will never return to the land for which you long.”
19. Jeremiah 22:28כׇּנְיָהוּ · Coniah
    Is 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?
20. Jeremiah 22:30Referred to, not named
    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
21. Jeremiah 24:1יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
    After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
22. Jeremiah 27:20יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
    …which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
23. Jeremiah 28:4יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
    And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
24. Jeremiah 29:2יְכוֹנְיָה · Jeconiah
    (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
25. Jeremiah 37:1כׇּנְיָהוּ · Coniah
    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
26. Jeremiah 52:31יְהוֹיָכִין · Jehoiachin
    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
27. Ezekiel 1:2יוֹיָכִין · Joyachin
    On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
28. Matthew 1:11Ἰεχονίας · Jechoniah
    …and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
29. Matthew 1:12Ἰεχονίας · Jechoniah
    After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,