And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
The verse stands in the history of the kings from the accession of Solomon to the Babylonian captivity, specifically in the third great section covering the remaining kingdom of Judah after the ten tribes had been swept away in 2 Kings 18-25. It belongs to the account of Judah's last kings leading to captivity and the kingdom's fall before Nebuchadnezzar. Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim succeeded his father in Jerusalem and did evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father had done. He did so unheeding Jeremiah's lesson drawn from the obedience of the faithful Rechabites. The account is set in the broader lesson that Judah followed Israel's departure from God and idolatry until captivity came. After Jehoiakim's eleven-year reign, the eighteen-year-old Jehoiachin reigned only three months in Jerusalem, about 599 B.C. and in 598 B.C. in Nebuchadnezzar's seventh year, before Babylon's king dethroned him. The verse belongs to the account of Judah's successive rebellions against Babylon and the resulting conquest, deportations, and devastation of Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar marched into Palestine at the head of a vast army of Babylonians and Median allies, left part of his force to blockade Tyre, and pressed on to Jerusalem after Jehoiakim's revolt failed for lack of Egyptian aid. Jehoiakim submitted but was punished with death and his dead body was treated with indignity. In the reign of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem and carried away some of the chief men to Babylon, among them Daniel and his three companions, which is the historical opening described in Daniel 1:1-2. Jehoiachin then went out and surrendered with his mother and his servants and princes and officers while Judah was occupied and Jerusalem was besieged. The treasures of the house of the Lord and all the golden vessels of the temple were taken. He with his family and the royal family and all the mighty of the land and the wealthy people and the craftsmen, smiths and artisans were carried captive to Babylon, leaving only the poorest sort of people in Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, suspecting his fidelity, deposed him and substituted his uncle Zedekiah, brother of Jehoiakim and Jehoahaz, whose fuller downfall is given in 2 Kings 24. After that removal Judah had no more than provincial government under the world's ruling kingdoms. In Babylon Jehoiachin was kept in prison thirty-seven years until the death of Nebuchadnezzar, when Evil-merodach took him out of prison, spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings with him in Babylon for the rest of his life.
The verse stands in the history of the kings from the accession of Solomon to the Babylonian captivity, specifically in the third great section covering the remaining kingdom of Judah after the ten tribes had been swept away in 2 Kings 18-25. It belongs to the account of Judah's last kings leading to captivity and the kingdom's fall before Nebuchadnezzar.
Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim succeeded his father in Jerusalem and did evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father had done. He did so unheeding Jeremiah's lesson drawn from the obedience of the faithful Rechabites. The account is set in the broader lesson that Judah followed Israel's departure from God and idolatry until captivity came.
After Jehoiakim's eleven-year reign, the eighteen-year-old Jehoiachin reigned only three months in Jerusalem, about 599 B.C. and in 598 B.C. in Nebuchadnezzar's seventh year, before Babylon's king dethroned him.
The verse belongs to the account of Judah's successive rebellions against Babylon and the resulting conquest, deportations, and devastation of Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar marched into Palestine at the head of a vast army of Babylonians and Median allies, left part of his force to blockade Tyre, and pressed on to Jerusalem after Jehoiakim's revolt failed for lack of Egyptian aid. Jehoiakim submitted but was punished with death and his dead body was treated with indignity. In the reign of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem and carried away some of the chief men to Babylon, among them Daniel and his three companions, which is the historical opening described in Daniel 1:1-2.
Jehoiachin then went out and surrendered with his mother and his servants and princes and officers while Judah was occupied and Jerusalem was besieged. The treasures of the house of the Lord and all the golden vessels of the temple were taken. He with his family and the royal family and all the mighty of the land and the wealthy people and the craftsmen, smiths and artisans were carried captive to Babylon, leaving only the poorest sort of people in Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, suspecting his fidelity, deposed him and substituted his uncle Zedekiah, brother of Jehoiakim and Jehoahaz, whose fuller downfall is given in 2 Kings 24. After that removal Judah had no more than provincial government under the world's ruling kingdoms.
In Babylon Jehoiachin was kept in prison thirty-seven years until the death of Nebuchadnezzar, when Evil-merodach took him out of prison, spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings with him in Babylon for the rest of his life.