2 Kings 24:6 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב	vai.yish.Kav	and he lay down	H7901 →
יְהוֹיָקִ֖ים	ye.ho.ya.Kim	Jehoiakim	H3079 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
אֲבֹתָ֑יו	'a.vo.Tav	ancestors his	H1 →
וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ	vai.yim.Lokh	and he became king	H4427 →
יְהוֹיָכִ֥ין	ye.ho.ya.Khin	Jehoiachin	H3078 →
בְּנ֖וֹ	be.No	son his	H1121 →
תַּחְתָּֽיו׃	tach.Tav	in place of him	H8478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by…
leads to
- Jeremiah 22:30
  This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or…
- 2 Kings 24:12–15
  Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him…
Through
2 Chronicles 36:6
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 33:11
  So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
- Daniel 1:1–2
  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
- 2 Kings 24:13–20
  As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…
- Habakkuk 1:5–10
  “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- Ezekiel 19:5–9
  When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
Through
2 Chronicles 36:8
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.…
leads to
- 2 Kings 24:5–6
  As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Ecclesiastes 4:14For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.Jeremiah 22:18–19Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’1 Chronicles 3:16The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.Esther 2:6He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.2 Chronicles 36:6Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.Jeremiah 36:30Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.Ezekiel 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel 2 Chronicles 36:8As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.Ezekiel 19:12But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Evidence1

What the record shows

Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah) — attested in contemporary inscriptionundisputed
Babylonian ration tablets (Jehoiachin ration records, Ishtar Gate archive)
Biblical figure (King of Judah, 598-597 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

One person, two names
Jeremiah 22:24
TIPNR unifies Jehoiachin=Jeconiah=Coniah=Jechonias as ONE person (uStrong H3078; forms H3112, H3204, H3659, G2423); the flagged node.
2 Kgs 24:6; Jer 22:24; 1 Chr 3:16; Matt 1:11; TIPNR
What the spade turned up
Jeremiah 52:31
Babylonian ration tablets name Jehoiachin king of Judah and his sons - the flagged tree node is a documented historical person (exile + later maintenance).
Weidner (1939); ANET; Mykytiuk BAR 2014 (cite-only)

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