Fehoiakim firſt ſubdued by Nebuchadnezzar, Rebelleth againſt him, to his own Ruine : Fehofachin his Sn is King in his ſtead, 1 6» Hts vil Reign : Feruſalem ſpoiled and made Captive by the King of Babylon, 8 -16. He maketh Zedckia' King ; he reigneth ill, unto the utter Deſtrution of Judah, 19- 20, | >
N * his days « Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 6b
came up c, and Jehoiakim became his ſervant. three
years : then he turned and rebelled againft him 4.
a 7. e. In Jehoiakims Reign, in the end of his third Year, Dan. x. r. or, the beginning of his Fourth, Jer, 25. 1. b The ſon of Nabopolaſar, who quite ſubdued the Afrian, firſt his Lord, and then his Com- petitor, and made himſelf Abſolute Monarch of all thoſe partsof the World. c To wit, againſt Fehoiakim, as the Friznd and Confederate of Pharaoh, whoſe Forces he had lately Conquered. Jer. 46. 2. 4 By the inſtigation of the Egyptian, who threatned him if he did not Rebel, and promiſed him hisutmoſt Affiſtance ifhe did.
2 And the LOR D fenc againſt him bands of the Caldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Children of Ammon e, and ſent them againft Judah to deſtroy it, * according to
d Ty the word of the LORD, which he ſpake Þ by his ſer-
vants the prophets. e For Neb:»chadnezzar's Army wis made up of ſeveral Nations,
4 iand who were willing to Fight under the Banner of ſuch a Puiſſant and
Victorious Emperor.
3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD canie this upon Judah, to remove them out of his ſight, for * the ſins of Manaſleh f, according to all that he did.
f Properly and dire&ly for their own ſins, and occaſionally far the ſins of Manaſſeh, which had never been charged upon thein, if they. had nos made them their own by their impenitency for them, and repetition of them.
And alſo for * the innocent blood yg that he ſhed, ( for he filled Jeruſalem with innocent blood ) F which the LORD would not pardon. |
g To wit, of thoſe Prophets and Saints, who. either rzproved, or would not comply with his Idolatrous Worſhip.
5 4 Now the reſt ofthe ads of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of che Chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
6 SoJehoiakim ſlept with his fathers : and Jehojachin |
þ his ſon reigned in his ftead.
þ Called alſo Jechon:ah, 1 Chron. 3. 16. { as Jehoakim alſo was, by comparing this with Mar. 1.12. J and in way of coutempt, Choniah, fer. 22. 24.
7 And the King of Egypt came not again any more out of his land 5: for * the King ofBabylon had taken
' from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all
thar pertained to the king of Egypt.
i To wit, in this Kings days; nor until Zedekiahs time, Jer. 37. 6, 4. noc to any purpoſe. He could not now come out to Protett the King of Judah, being ſcarce able ro detend his own Kingdom.
8 © Jehoiachin was cighteenyears oid when ne began to reign &, and he reigned in Jeruſalem chree months 7: and his mothers name was Nehujhra, tre daughter of
Elnathan of Jeruſalem. |
k O5j. He was then bur E'ght years old, 2 Chron. 36. 9. Anſ. 1. Both are true ; in his Eighth Year he began to Reign wirh his Farner, who made him King with him, as divers other Kings of rae! and Falah had done in the like runes of trouble ; and in his Eighteenth Year he Reigned alone. 2. He is called a ſon of eight years when he
began to reign, 2 Chron, 36. 9, becauſe this was the Eighth Year, not
| Tranſlation ; or in ſome of them, 1 Ard ten days which are added, 2 Chron 36. 9. But ſuch ſmall ſums are frequently omitred in great
N G. S: Chip." XK1V:| ofhis Age, but of rhe $aby'oniſo Captivity,or Bondage ; under which, 1 t both he and his Father had beea juſt ſo long ; for itbegan in the fourth Year of Jehojakim, as it is afhrmed, Jer. 25. 1+ and co':tinued all his Reign, which laſted Eleven Years, Chap. 23- 36. and ſo the hrſt Year of Jehojakim was preciſely the Eighth Year of that Capti» vity. And this is certain, That the. Years of Kings mentioned in Scripture, are not always accounted from the beginning of their Age, but from ſome other Remarkible Time or Thing : thus Saul when at Mans Eſtate, is called, the ſon of one year, 1 Sam, 8 of witch ſee my notes there ; and Ahaziah, ( whole Father lived only ; Forty Years, 2 Chron.21.20. ) is called a ſon of forty and two years when | he began to reign,. 2 Chron, 22. 2+ becauſe that was the Forry and ſe- Wh: i cond Year of the Reign of Omr''s Family, as moſt think. And theres SILLY | fore it cannot ſeem ſtrange, if the Years of this King be compured, Why not from h13 Birth, but from the beginriing of ſo great and famous Wk"! a Change of the 7ewifh Affairs, as this Captivity made ; this being the - (a ' uſual way of the Romans and Greeks, and other more Ancient and WT | Eaſtern Nations, to compure the times from the great Changesand Ws; | Revolutions happening among them. And thar this was the praftice Wir | ofthe Jewsin the Compuration of theſe very times, is evident from ? the wiſe vf it in the Prophecy of Ezekicl, ch. 1. 2. which was the fiſth year of Jehojakims captivity ;- and Chap. 33. 21. in the Twelfth year of our Captivty; and Chap. 40. 1. in the Twenty fifth year of our Captivity. 3. Toall this might be added, That ſome here acknowledge art Error of the Scr:be, and affirm, That in the firſt and beſt Copies, in 2 C:ron, 36. 9. it*was not eizht, but eighteen; which they gather from hence, becauſe choſe two Ancient and Venerable Tranſlators, the Syriack and Arabick, read there, as it is here, was eighteen years old ; which they fay, they would never heve preſumed to do, it chey had ; not ſo read it in thoſe Hebrew Copies, out of which they drew their
Numbers. See on G:n. 14. 13. 1 Kings 16, 8. :