Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
9. Jehoiachin ] Called “Jeconiah,” 1Ch 3:16, where see note.
eight years ] So LXX. (B) of Chron. and of Esd., but the number is probably corrupt for eighteen (so LXX. (A) of Chron. and of Esd. and Heb. and LXX. of 2Ki 24:8). It is possible that the clause “and ten days” below is a misplaced fragment of an original reading ben shmneh esreh shanah, i.e. “eighteen years old.”
in Jerusalem ] The Chronicler here omits the king’s mother’s name (cp. 2Ch 36:2, note), though she was a person of some influence; cp. 2Ki 24:12; Jer 22:24-26; and perhaps ibid. Jer 13:18 (R.V.).
he did that which was evil ] Cp. Jer 22:14; Eze 19:5-9.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
9, 10 (= 1Es 1:43-45 ; cp. 2Ki 24:8-17). The Reign of Jehoiachin
The account given in 2 Kin. contains much that is not given in Chron. and, in particular, many details of the first captivity of Judah.
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Eight years old – Rather, eighteen (see the marginal reference). Jehoiachin had several wives and (apparently) at least one child Jer 22:28, when, three months later, he was carried captive to Babylon.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Jehoiachin was eight] See on 2Kg 24:6-15.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Jehoiachin was eight years old; of which See Poole “2Ki 24:8“, where he is said to be eighteen years old.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
9, 10. Jehoiachin was eight yearsoldcalled also Jeconiah or Coniah (Jer22:24) “eight” should have been “eighteen,”as appears from 2Ki 24:8, andalso from the full development of his ungodly principles and habits(see Eze 19:5-7). Hisreign being of so short duration cannot be considered at variancewith the prophetic denunciation against his father (Jer36:30). But his appointment by the people gave umbrage toNebuchadnezzar, who, “when the year was expired” (2Ch36:10) that is, in the spring when campaigns usuallybegancame in person against Jerusalem, captured the city, and sentJehoiachin in chains to Babylon, removing at the same time all thenobles and most skilful artisans, and pillaging all the remainingtreasures both of the temple and palace (see on 2Ki24:8-17).
2Ch36:11-21. ZEDEKIAH’SREIGN.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 2Ch 36:1]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The reign of Jehoiachin. Cf. 2Ki 24:8-17. – Jehoiachin’s age at his accession is here given as eight years, while in 2Ki 24:8 it is eighteen. It is so also in the lxx and Vulg.; but a few Hebr. codd., Syr., and Arab., and many manuscripts of the lxx, have eighteen years in the Chronicle also. The number eight is clearly an orthographical error, as Thenius also acknowledges. Bertheau, on the contrary, regards the eight of our text as the original, and the number eighteen in 2 Kings as an alteration occasioned by the idea that eighteen years appeared a more fitting age for a king than eight years, and gives as his reason, “that the king’s mother is named along with him, and manifestly with design, 2Ki 24:12, 2Ki 24:15, and Jer 22:26, whence we must conclude that she had the guardianship of the young king.” A perfectly worthless reason. In the books of Kings the name of the mother is given in the case of all the kings after their accession has been mentioned, without any reference to the age of the kings, because the queen-mother occupied a conspicuous position in the kingdom. It is so in the case of Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, 2Ki 23:36 and 2Ki 24:8. On account of her high position, the queen-mother is mentioned in 2Ki 24:12 and 2Ki 24:15, and in Jeremiah, among those who submitted to Nebuchadnezzar and were carried away to Babylon. The correctness of the number eighteen is, however, placed beyond doubt by Eze 19:5-9, where the prophet portrays Jehoiachin as a young lion, which devoured men, and knew widows, and wasted cities. The knowing of widows cannot apply to a boy of eight, but might well be said of a young man of eighteen. Jehoiachin ruled only three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did evil in the eyes of Jahve. At the turn of the year, i.e., in spring, when campaigns were usually opened (cf. 1Ki 20:22; 2Sa 11:1), Nebuchadnezzar sent his generals (2Ki 24:10), and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jahve, and made his (father’s) brother Zedekiah king in Judah. In these few words the end of Jehoiachin’s short reign is recorded. From 2Ki 24:10-16 we learn more as to this second campaign of Nebuchadnezzar against Jerusalem, and its issues for Judah; see the commentary on that passage. Zidkiyah (Zedekiah) was, according to 2Ki 24:17, not a brother, but , uncle or father’s brother, of Jehoiachin, and was called Mattaniah, a son of Josiah and Hamutal, like Jehoahaz (2Ki 24:18, cf. 2Ki 23:31), and is consequently his full brother, and a step-brother of Jehoiakim. At his appointment to the kingdom by Nebuchadnezzar he received the name Zidkiyah (Zedekiah). , in 2Ch 36:10, is accordingly to be taken in its wider signification of blood-relation.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
see note on: 2Ki 24:8
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
20. THE REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN (2Ch. 36:9-10)
TEXT
2Ch. 36:9. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. 10. And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
PARAPHRASE
2Ch. 36:9. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he ascended the throne. But he lasted only three months and ten days, and it was an evil reign as far as the Lord was concerned. 10. The following spring he was summoned to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. Many treasures from the Temple were taken away to Babylon at that time, and King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachins brother Zedekiah as the new king of Judah and Jerusalem.
COMMENTARY
Whether Jehoiakims son, Jehoiachin, was eight or eighteen years of age (2Ki. 24:8) when he became king, he reigned only three months and served no good purpose while he was on the throne. Once more the Babylonians came at the return of the year (in the springtime) and robbed the Temple taking more captives (like those among whom Ezekiel lived). Jehoiachin was deported to Babylon. Jehovahs predictions through Moses in Deuteronomy, chapter 28, were being literally fulfilled.
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(9) Jehoiachin was eight years old.2Ki. 24:8 has correctly eighteen; and so some MSS., LXX. (Alex.), Syriac, Arabic. What the prophet Ezekiel says of him could not apply to a boy of eight. (The difference turns on the omission of the smallest Hebrew letter, namely, yod, which as a numeral represents ten.)
Three months and ten days.Kings, three months; Syriac and Arabic here have one hundred days, i.e., three months and ten days. Thenius thinks the ten days were added, in order that the catastrophe of Jehoiachins reign might fall on a tenth day of the month, like the investment of Jerusalem and the fall of the city under Zedekiah (2Ch. 25:1; 2Ch. 25:8).
He did that which was evil.2Ki. 24:9. (See also the above-cited passages of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.) According to the latter prophet, Jehoiachin devoured men, and forced widows, and wasted cities.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 36:9. Jehoiachin was eight years old Eighteen years old. Houbigant; after the Syriac and Arabic. See 2Ki 24:8.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Here is a three month’s reign, like his uncle; but a period of evil it should seem also. Misery and trouble had no effect upon his mind. And indeed, awful as it is to think, yet the fact is undeniable; if affliction be not sanctified to soften the heart, it will be sure to harden it. Those vessels which Nebuchadnezzar dared to carry away out of the temple of the Lord, became a dreadful scourge in after times to Belshazzar his son. See Dan 5 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 36:9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
Ver. 9. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, ] i.e., When his father Jehoiakim began to reign, for when himself began, he was eighteen. 2Ki 24:8 For another solution See Trapp on “ 2Ki 24:8 “ The like relative sense may that speech admit. 2Ki 16:2
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jahoiachin. Called also Jeconiah (1Ch 3:16) and Coniah (Jer 22:24, Jer 22:28). Compare 2Ki 24:8. The “Je” (= Jehovah) being cut off from his name.
eight years. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read “eight”, but 2Ki 24:8 reads “eighteen”. The “eighteen” must include his co-regency, the “eight” to his reigning alone. This practice was common in Israel and Judah as well as in ancient contemporary kingdoms.
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2Ch 36:9-10
2Ch 36:9-10
JEHOIAKIN (CONIAH) (598 B.C.)
“Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign: and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. And at the turn of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.”
E.M. Zerr:
2Ch 36:9. Jehoiachin has two other forms for his name in other parts of the Bible, and it will be well for the student to bear them in mind in order to avoid confusion. They are, Jeconiah and Coniah. The common text says he was 8 ears old when he began to reign. The corresponding passage in 2Ki 24:8 says he was 18. The one in Kings evidently is the correct one. But the critic of the Bible will have nothing to boast about, or to claim it to have been the work of man. The difference is too plain not to have been noticed by the men who composed the volume, had it been the work of uninspired man. Had the two accounts been so written originally as they now stand, the mistake would have been noticed by the writers on their first reading of it, and would have been corrected. But a blurred manuscript could easily have been misread by a copyist. Jehoiachin at the age of 18 years, was old enough to be “on his own” in the kingship. He was an evil ruler and the Lord suffered his political superior (Nebuchadnezzar) to take him away into the captivity.
2Ch 36:10. Jehoiachin was permitted to reign but a few months when Nebuchadnezzar came up against him and his capital, and took him away to Babylon. At the same time he took the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord; that is, he took some of them. 2Ch 36:7 says he took of the vessels, which would still leave a part of them, and at the time we are now considering he took some more of them but left some. He made a change in the rulership also. Jehoiachin was only 18 years of age when he was taken from his throne. It is not likely that he had any children to inherit his place. But the entire regime was under the subjection of Babylon anyway, so that whatsoever changes that country would see fit to make could be expected. Men had more than one name in those days and they were used interchangeably. For instance, Mattaniah was one name and Zedekiah another of the same man, and he was a son of Josiah. Another thing to remember is that a relative of a man was sometimes spoken of as his own relative of the same rank; so a man’s father’s brother might be said to be his brother. It was that way in the case at hand. Zedekiah was really the brother of Jehoiakim, father of Jehoiachin, but here spoken of as his brother. We should consider 2Ki 24:17 and 1Ch 3:15 in connection with this verse, in order to get this relationship clear in our minds. The taking of Jehoiachin to Babylon constituted the 2nd of the three captivities already spoken of. Because he reigned such a small fraction of a year, any date based on the years after “Jehoiachin’s captivity” or on the number of years of Zedekiah’s reign would be the same date. The fuller account of Jehoiachin’s captivity is given in 2Ki 24:10-16. It can be seen at that place that it was the most important of the “three captivities” in the way of casualties. At that time the king of Babylon took away most of the vessels of the temple and stored them in the heathen building in his own capital city. He took also the best portions of the inhabitants, leaving only the poorest sort of the people. Among the great men whom he took away was the prophet Ezekiel. (Eze 1:2; Eze 40:1.)
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
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eight years old: The Syriac, Arabic, and the parallel place – see note on 2Ki 24:8, have “eighteen years;” which, as Scaliger observes, is no doubt the genuine reading.
Reciprocal: 2Ki 24:14 – Jerusalem 1Ch 3:16 – Jeconiah 1Ch 9:1 – carried Est 2:6 – Jeconiah Ecc 10:16 – when Isa 3:4 – children Jer 22:26 – General Jer 29:2 – Jeconiah Jer 37:1 – Coniah Eze 17:3 – came Eze 17:12 – Behold
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2Ch 36:9. Jehoiachin was eight years old See the note on 2Ki 24:8, in which it is said that he was eighteen years old when he began to reign, which is probably the right reading.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
36:9 Jehoiachin [was] {e} eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
(e) That is, he began his reign at eight years old, and reigned ten years when his father was alive, and after his father’s death, which was in his eighteenth year, he reigned alone three months and ten days.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
3. Jehoiachin 36:9-10
Like his father Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin was under Nebuchadnezzar’s thumb. He too suffered deportation to Babylon, and with him went more of the glory of Israel.