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3 unusual facts about Jehoiakim


Brazier

The only reference to it in the Bible is in Jeremiah 36:22-23, where braziers heat the winter palace of King Jehoiakim.

Necho II

On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiakim.

Zedekiah

Despite the strong remonstrances of Jeremiah, Baruch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt.


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Matthew 1:17

Almost all other sources report that a king named Jehoiakim was between Josiah and Jeconiah.


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