2 Kings 24:6
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| Overview - 2 Kings 24 | |
| 1 | Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procures his own ruin. |
| 5 | Jehoiachin succeeds him. |
| 7 | The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon. |
| 8 | Jehoiachin's evil reign. |
| 10 | Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon. |
| 17 | Zedekiah is made king, and reigns ill, unto the utter destruction of Judah. |
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2 Kings 24:6 (King James Version)
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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- M. 3405. B.C. 599. slept
- As Jehoiakim was "buried with the burial of an ass," by being "drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem," without
- internment, the expression "slept with his fathers," can only mean that the died, or slept the sleep of death. In the East, a body exposed during the night would be a prey to wild animals; if any of it were left till the morning, the carnivorous birds would devour it. 2 Chronicles 36:6 2 Chronicles 36:8 ; Jeremiah 22:18 Jeremiah 22:19 ; 36:30
- Jehoiachin
- As this man reigned only three months, and was a mere vassal of the king of Babylon, his reign is scarcely reckoned; and therefore Jeremiah (ch. 31:30 ) says of Jehoiakim, "he shall have none to sit upon the throne of David."