2 Kings 24
DOYLY2 Kings 24:8
- Jehoiachin was eighteen years old] There is a material difference between this verse and 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9, where it is stated, that he was but eight years old when he began to reign. But the two passages may be easily reconciled, as may many other similar discrepancies, by supposing that his father took him to reign together with him; and that, for the first ten years out of the eighteen mentioned, he thus reigned in conjunction with his father. Stackhouse.
2 Kings 24:17
- — changed his name to Zedekiah.] The name Zedekiah signifies the justice of the Lord. They intended by this name to put him continually in mind of the vengeance which he was to expect from the justice of Vol. I.
the Lord his God, if he violated that fidelity which he had sworn, in the name of God, to observe towards his conqueror. Dean Prideaux.
It is to this day the custom among the Eastern people to assume a new and different name on particular occurrences in their life. Harmer.
2 Kings 24:20
- For through the anger of the Lord] God was so highly displeased with this wicked people, that he permitted Zedekiah to break his faith with Nebuchadnezzar, and to rebel against him, forgetting for what cause he changed his name. It is probable that he was persuaded to his revolt by the ambassadours which the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon, sent to him, to throw off the yoke of the king of Babylon, Jer. xxvii. 2—4. The king of Egypt also, it is probable, promised him help; see Ezek. xvii. 15. And Hananish, a false prophet, assured him that God would in two years’ time break the yoke of the king of Babylon, and bring back all the vessels of the house of God, with Jeconiah and all the captives; see Jer. xxviii. 1—4. Jeremiah indeed proved that he made them trust