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Jehoiakim, [a] also sometimes spelled Jehoikim [b] was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah ( 1 Chronicles 3:15) and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. [2] His birth name was Eliakim. [c]
Jehoiakim was taken prisoner and carried captive to Babylon ( 2 Chronicles 36:6 2 Chronicles 36:7). It was at this time that Daniel also and his three companions were taken captive to Babylon ( Daniel 1:1 Daniel 1:2). Nebuchadnezzar reinstated Jehoiakim on his throne, but treated him as a vassal king.
Jan 4, 2022 · Who was King Jehoiakim in the Bible? Jehoiakim (named Eliakim at birth, 2 Chronicles 36:4) was one of the last kings of Judah before the Babylonian Captivity. Jehoiakim was a son of good King Josiah ( Jeremiah 26:1) of Judah. His mother’s name was Zebidah ( 2 Kings 23:36 ). Jehoiakim’s father, King Josiah, had returned Judah to the Lord by ...
Jehoiakim was the son of King Josiah and king of Judah. He was made king with the support of the Egyptian king Necho II. He allied with Nebuchadnezzar II when the latter defeated Egypt at Carchemish before revolting three years later.
Jehoiakim. avenging, or establishing, or resurrection, of the Lord. Smith's Bible Dictionary. Jehoiakim. ( whom Jehovah sets up ), called Eliakim, son of Josiah and king of Judah. After deposing Jehoahaz, Pharaoh-necho set Eliakim, his elder brother, upon the throne, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, B.C. 608-597.
Jeremiah characterized Jehoiakim as “competing in cedar” ( Jer 22:15 ), greedy and unprincipled. He ordered the death of Uriah of Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied as Jeremiah did ( 26:20 ff.) “against this city,” but clearly it was the call to repent that was unacceptable to the people and leaders as well as to the king.
Jehoiakim, who was 25 when he ascended the throne (according to I Chron. 3:15 he was the second son of Josiah), was most likely selected because of his known support of a pro-Egyptian policy. Jehoiakim's original name Eliakim was changed by the Pharaoh in order to indicate the Judahite king's subservience to Egypt (II Kings 23:34; II Chron. 36:4).
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