2 Rois 24:8

8 Jojakin avait dix-huit ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Nehuschtha, fille d'Elnathan, de Jérusalem.

2 Rois 24:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign,
&c.] In ( 2 Chronicles 36:9 ) he is said to be but eight years old; which may be reconciled by observing, that he might be made and declared king by his father, in the first year of his reign, who reigned eleven years, so that he was eight years old when he began to reign with him, and eighteen when he began to reign alone F17. Dr. Lightfoot F18 gives another solution of this difficulty, that properly speaking he was eighteen years old when he began to reign, but, in an improper sense, the son of eight years, or the eighth year, as the Hebrew phrase is; that is, he fell in the lot of the eighth year of the captivity of Judah, which was in the latter end of the third, or the beginning of the fourth of his father's reign, and the first of Nebuchadnezzar's, and it was now in the eighth of Nebuchadnezzar that he was king, see ( 2 Kings 24:12 ) , but very probably in ( 2 Chronicles 36:9 ) there is a mistake in the copyist of eight for eighteen, since in the Arabic and Syriac versions it is there eighteen, as here:

he reigned in Jerusalem three months;
the ten days besides are here omitted for shortness, ( 2 Chronicles 36:9 )

and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem;
a person no doubt well known in those times.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 So in Seder Olam Rabba, c. 25.
F18 Works, vol. 1. p. 122.

2 Rois 24:8 In-Context

6 Jojakim se coucha avec ses pères. Et Jojakin, son fils, régna à sa place.
7 Le roi d'Egypte ne sortit plus de son pays, car le roi de Babylone avait pris tout ce qui était au roi d'Egypte depuis le torrent d'Egypte jusqu'au fleuve de l'Euphrate.
8 Jojakin avait dix-huit ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Nehuschtha, fille d'Elnathan, de Jérusalem.
9 Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel, entièrement comme avait fait son père.
10 En ce temps-là, les serviteurs de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, montèrent contre Jérusalem, et la ville fut assiégée.
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