Jeho'hanan (Heb. Yehochanan', 'Snin^, Jehovah- granted, q. d. 9£oPwpoe), the name of several men. See also JoiiANAN ; John, etc.
1. (Sept. 'laivc'tv.') A Korhite, and head of the sixth division of Levitical Temple porters (1 Chron. xxvi, 3). B.G. 1014.
2. (Sept. Twai/av.) Jehoshaphat's second " captain," in command of 280,000 (?) men (2 Chron. xvii, 15) ; probably the same whose son Azariah supported Jehoi- ada in his restoration of prince Jehoash (2 Chron. xxiii, 1). B.C. cir. 910.
3. (Sept. lioavav, Auth. Vers. " Johanan.") The fa- ther of Azariah, which latter was one of the Ephraimite chiefs who insisted upon the return of the captives from the rival kingdom (2 Chron. xxviii, 12). B.C. ante 738.
4. (Sept. 'Iwcivav, A. Vers. " Johanan.") A priest, the "son" of Eliashib, into whose chamber Ezra retired to bewaU the profligacy of his countrymen in marrying Gentile wives (Ezra x, t>) ; doubtless the same elsewhere called JoiiAXAN in the original (Neh. xii, 22, 23), and perhaps identical with No. 7 below.
5. (Sept, 'Itom'dv.) One of the " sons" of Bebai, who divorced his Gentile wife after the Babylonian exile (Ezra X, 28). B.C. 459.
6. (Sept. 'lijjvd^av v. r. 'Iwvdi', Auth. Vers. " Joha- nan.") Son of Tobiah, the Samaritan enemy of the Jews, and son-in-la^v of ^Mcshidlam (Neh. vi, 18). B.C. 446.
7. (Sept. 'Itoix'iv.) One of the priests who celebra- ted with music the reparation of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. xii, 42). B.C. 44G. He was perhaps the same with No. 4 or No. 8.
8, (Sept. 'Iwavctt'.) A leading priest, the son of Amariah, and contemporary with Joiakim (Neh. xii, 13). B.C. cir. 40(3. He may have been identical witli the preceding.
Jehoi'achin (Heb. Yehoyakin', 'p2'^in^, Jehovah- appointed; Sept. 'Iwaxi/i in 2 Kings xxiv, G, 8, 12, 15; xxv, 27 ; 'hxoviag in 2 Chron. xxxvi, 8, 9 ; Imatciii-i in Jer. lii, 31 ; Josephus 'Iwdxt/^og, Ant. x, 6, 3 ; 7, 1 ; N. Test. 'ltxoi'la(;, " Jechonias," Matt, i, 11, 12 ; contracted once "pS^i"', Yoi/akin', Ezek. i. 2, Sept. 'Iwa^/jn, Auth. Vers. " Jehoiachin"), also in the contracted fonns Jec- osiAH ('"^l^SS^ Yekonyah', Sept. 'lixoviai: in Jer. xxvii, 20; xxviii, 4; xxix, 2; 1 Chron. iii, IG, 17; but omits in Esth. ii, 6; likewise paragogic ^n^3D^, Yekonyn'hu, Jer. xxiv. 1, Sept. Tf^^oj/iac), and Coniaii {Konyah', only paragogic ^n^^pS, Konya'hu, Jer. xxii, 24, 28; xxxvii, 1, Sept. 'lixoviag), son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, by Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusa- lem ; he succeeded his father as the nineteenth monarch of that separate kingdom, but only for three months and ten days, B.C. 598. He was then eighteen years of age according to 2 Kings xxiv, 8, but only eight according to 2 Chron. xxxvi, 9. Many attempts have been made to reconcile these dates (see J. D. IMiillcr, JJe rth. duur. tribuum regni Jud. adversis, Lipsise, 1745; Oeder, Freie Untersuch. iiber einige Alttest.-Biicher, p. 214 ; Offerhaus, Spicileg. p. 193), the most usual solution being that he had reigned ten years in conjunction with his lather, so that he was eight when he began his joint reii;n, but eighteen when he began to reign alone. Tliere are, however, ditficulties in this view which, perha]is, leave it the safest course to conclude that " eight" in 2 Chron. xxxvi, 9, is a corruption of the ttxt, such as might easily occur from the relation of the numbers eight and eighteen. (All the versions read eighteen in Kings, and so tlie Vulg. and many IMSS. of the Sept. in Chron., as well as at 1 Esd. i, 43. Among recent commentators, Keil, Thenius, and Hitzig favor the reading eighteen, \vhile Bertheau prefers eight. The language in Jer. xxii, 24-30 is not decisive, for the epithets there applied to Jechoniah do not necessarily im])ly adult age, al- though they more naturally agree witli it. The same remark apjilies to the allusion in Ezek. xix, 5-9. The decided reprobation, however, in 2 Kings xxiv, 9, and in 2 Chron. xxxvi, 9, would hardly be used of a mere child. The mention of his mother in 2 Kings xxiv, 12 does not imply his minority, for the queen-ilowager vas a very important member of the royal family. The number eight, indeed, would bring .Jehoiachin's birth in tbe year of the beginning of the captivity by Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, and thus exactly agree with the language in 3Iatt, i, 11 ; but the expression "and his brethren" add- ed there, as well as the language of the following verse, agrees better with a less precise correspondence, as like- wise the qualifying "about" indicates. The argument drawn from his father's age at death, thirty-six [2 Kings xxiii, 3G], is favorable to Jehoiachin's maturity at the time, for most of these kings became fathers very early, Josiah, e. g., at fifteen [2 Kings xxii, 1 , comp. with xxiii, oG].) He was, therefore, born in B.C. GIG. ' I Jehoiachin followed the evil courses which had al- I ready brought so much disaster upon the royal house of David, and u|wn the people under its sway. He seems to have very speedily indicated a political bias adverse to the interests of the Chaldiean emi'ire. for in three months after his accession we find the gcriorak of Nebuchadnezzar again laying siege to .Teru^alem, ac- cording to the predictions of Jeremiah (xxii, 18-xxiv, 30). Jehoiachin had come to the throne at a time when Egypt was still prostrate in consequence of the victorj' at Carchemish, and when the Jews liad been for three or four years harassed and ilistrtssed bj' the in-