2 Reyes 24:8

8 De dieciocho años era Joaquín cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén tres meses. El nombre de su madre fue Nehusta hija de Elnatán, de Jerusalén.

2 Reyes 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

2 Reyes 24:8 In-Context

6 Y durmió Joacim con sus padres, y reinó en su lugar Joaquín su hijo.

7 Y nunca más el rey de Egipto salió de su tierra; porque el rey de Babilonia le tomó todo lo que era suyo, desde el río de Egipto hasta el río de Eufrates.

8 De dieciocho años era Joaquín cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén tres meses. El nombre de su madre fue Nehusta hija de Elnatán, de Jerusalén.

9 E hizo lo malo en ojos del SEÑOR, conforme a todas las cosas que había hecho su padre.

10 En aquel tiempo subieron los siervos de Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia contra Jerusalén y la ciudad fue cercada.