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
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's put Jehoiakim on the throne in 608 B.C. and had him die in 597; modern chronology, built on the Babylonian Chronicle tablets in the British Museum published by D. J. Wiseman in 1956, dates his reign to 609–598 B.C. and fixes Nebuchadnezzar's capture of Jerusalem precisely to 2 Adar — 16 March 597 B.C. — a few months after Jehoiakim's death, so it was his son Jehoiachin who surrendered the city and went to Babylon. Those same cuneiform records also confirm the Egyptian tribute and Pharaoh Necho's brief overlordship that the 1921 account describes. The one detail most scholars would now drop is 'the youthful Daniel being among the captives': the Book of Daniel is generally dated to the second century B.C., long after the events it narrates. The broad picture — a vassal king, Jeremiah's warnings ignored, Babylonian reprisal — still stands.
Written for this edition, 2026.