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2 Kings 24:6 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 24 · verse 6
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.2 Kings 24:6 · King James Version
2 Kings 24:6 in context
4And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
5Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
7And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JehoiachinYᵉhôwyâkîynJehojakin, a Jewish kingH3078 →
- JehoiakimYᵉhôwyâqîymJehojakim, a Jewish kingH3079 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- reignedmâlakto reignH4427 →
- sleptshâkabto lie downH7901 →
- sonbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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We have here the first mention of a name which makes a great figure both in the histories and in the prophecies of the Old Testament; it is that of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Kg2 24:1), that head of gold. He was a potent prince, and one that was the terror of the mighty in the land of the living;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7