Jehoiakim

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a King Judah, advanced plained i: 14. "I am that I am," or "I am," thus predicating selfin Exod. iii: 14. "I am that I existence or existence of to the throne of Judah 608 thus predicating selfin a sense in which it B. c. as a tributary of Pharoah Necho, King of ace in a sense in which can be applied to no created being. In Exod. vi: 3 we read Egypt, to whom, as the price of his to no created being. that God appeared to Abraham, elevation, he gave 500 talents of silver and one talent ead that God appeared Isaac, and Jacob by the name of God of gold. Though admonished c, and Jacob by the by the prophet Jeremiah to walk in the mighty, but was not known to them by the name of Jehovah. Almighty, but was not The meaning paths of virtue, Jehoiakim relapsed into the name of Jehovah. may have been that the patriarchs did not idolatry and wickedness. His pride brought have been that the properly realize the down upon himself depth of meaning in the name, for the properly realize the and unfortunate country the vengeance of the Babylonian in the name, for the word occurs in Gen. xiv: 22, xxvi: 22, xxviii: 16. Elohim king, Nebuchadnezzar, who besieged en. xiv: 22, xxvi: 22, stands for God as the creator Jerusalem, rifled the temple and leaving a stands for God as and ruler of the universe (Gen. the humiliated king as his tributary on ruler of the universe the throne returned to Babylon i: 1); ah as a being standing in the most intimate relation to the Jew- Jehovah as a being standing ish people carrying with him some of the principal te relation to the Jewas their theocratic ruler and God (Psalm cxxxv inhabitants of Jerusalem, the youthful Daniel theocratic ruler and : 4), as supreme above all gods (verse being among the captives. He died in 597 b. 4), as supreme above 5), the First and the Last ( c. ), the First and the Isa. xli: 4), nay, the only true God (xliv: 5, may, the only true God