King Jehoiakim
Jeho-i'akim (whom God sets up), called Eliakim, son
of Josiah and king of Judah.
After deposing Jehoahaz, Pharaoh-necho set Eliakim,
his elder brother, upon the throne, and changed his name to Jehoiakim,
B.C. 608-597.
For four years Jehoiakim was subject toi Egypt,
when Nebuchadnezzar, after a short siege, entered Jerusalem, took the
king prisoner, bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon, and took
also some of the precious vessels of the temple and carried them to the
land of Shinar.
Jehoiakim became tributary to Nebuchadnezzar after
his invasion of Judah, and continued so for three years,
but at the end of that time broke his oath of allegiance and rebelled
against him.
2 Kings 24:1
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years:
then he turned and rebelled against him.
Nebuchadnezzar sent against him numerous bands of Chaldeans, with
Syrians, Moabites and Ammonites.
2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt came not again any
more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river
of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of
Egypt.
and who cruelly harassed the whole country. Either in an engagement with
some of these forces or else by the hand of his own oppressed subjects
Jehoiakim came to a violent end in the eleventh year of his reign.
His body was cast out ignominiously on the ground, and then was dragged
away and buried "with the burial of an ass," without pomp or lamentation,
"beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not
lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not
lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have
none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast
out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
All the accounts we have of Jehoiakim concur in ascribing to him a
vicious and irreligious character.
2 Kings 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of
Rumah.
2 Kings 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father had done.
2 Chronicles 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
The reign of Jehoiakim extends from B.C. 609 to B.C. 598, or, as some
reckon, 599.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.