Eliakim . The meaning of the word is "God sets up;" the meaning of Jehoiakim is "Jehovah sets up." An Egyptian king knew and recognized the word "God," but possibly meant to taunt the "Jehovah" of the Jew. read more
Here we note the age of Jehoiakim as greater than that of Jeoahaz, and in the parallel we read that his mother was different. read more
The fortunes of Jehoiakim. I. A NEW KING UPON THE THRONE OF JUDAH . ( 2 Chronicles 36:5 .) 1 . His designation. Eliakim, "Whom God establishes," changed into Jehoiakim, "Jehovah has set up;" not by himself, though it would almost seem as if Uzziah had adopted that name instead of Azariah on acceding to the crown ( 2 Chronicles 26:1 ), and Pal had assumed the title Tiglath-Pileser, "Adar is my confidence," on succeeding Shalmaneser of Assyria; but by Necho II .... read more
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon . Our mere allusions in this and the following verse to Nebuchadnezzar's relations to Jehoiakim and Judah are strange in comparison with the graphic account furnished by the parallel ( 2 Kings 24:1-6 ). The name is the same with Nabokodrosoros, is written in the Assyrian monuments Nebu-kuduri-utzur, and meaning, "Nebo ( Isaiah 46:1 ), protector from ill," or "protects the crown." In Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 49:28 ) we have the name... read more
(Comp. Daniel 2:2 .) The temple here called his temple was, no doubt, the temple of Belus, or in the vernacular "Merodach," the Babylonian god of war. This rifling of the sacred vessels of Jerusalem's temple for Babylon's temple was the significant beginning of the end for Judah now at last, after many a warning. read more
The narrative runs parallel with 2 Kings (marginal reference) as far as 2 Chronicles 36:13. The writer then emits the events following, and substitutes a sketch in which the moral and didactic element preponderates over the historical. read more
In his temple - Compare “the house of his god” Daniel 1:2. Nebuchadnezzars inscriptions show him to have been the special votary of Merodach, the Babylonian Mars. His temple, which the Greeks called the temple of Behus, was one of the most magnificent buildings in Babylon. Its ruins still remain in the vast mound, called Babil, which is the loftiest and most imposing of the “heaps” that mark the site of the ancient city. read more
2 Chronicles 36:1. The people of the land took Jehoahaz, &c. The principal contents of this chapter are explained in the notes on 2 Kings 23:31, and 24., and 25., to which the reader is referred. What is peculiar to this chapter shall be noticed here. read more
2 Chronicles 36:6. And bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon But he did not carry him thither, for Nebuchadnezzar altered his mind, and permitted him to reign at Jerusalem as his tributary, though he carried away, as it follows, some of the vessels of the temple, and also certain principal persons, as we read in the first of Daniel. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:3
Put him down ; Hebrew, וַיְסִירֵהוּ ; i.e. deposed him (Revised Version). At Jerusalem . In something more than three months Pharaoh-Necho seems to have been returning, and in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The parallel ( 2 Kings 23:31 ) tells us that he put Jahoahaz "in bands" at "Riblath in the land of Hamath" ( Ezekiel 19:4 ). And condemned the land ; i.e. inflicted a fine on the land; Hebrew, וַיַּעֲנשׁ . From this time nothing further is heard of Jehoahaz or... read more