Jehoiachin

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jehoiachin
     succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight years
     of age, and reigned for one hundred days (2 Chr. 36:9). He is
     also called Jeconiah (Jer. 24:1; 27:20, etc.), and Coniah
     (22:24; 37:1). He was succeeded by his uncle, Mattaniah =
     Zedekiah (q.v.). He was the last direct heir to the Jewish


     crown. He was carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar,
     along with the flower of the nobility, all the leading men in
     Jerusalem, and a great body of the general population, some
     thirteen thousand in all (2 Kings 24:12-16; Jer. 52:28). After
     an imprisonment of thirty-seven years (Jer. 52:31, 33), he was
     liberated by Evil-merodach, and permitted to occupy a place in
     the king's household and sit at his table, receiving "every day
     a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life"
     (52:32-34).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jehoiachin, preparation, or strength, of the Lord