Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 3:16
The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records the royal genealogy immediately following Josiah’s reign, documenting the transition of Judah’s throne after Jehoiakim’s death.
The words — בְּנֵ֖י (benei) literally means “sons” or “successors,” while בְנ֖/וֹ (beno) specifies “his son,” anchoring the passage in direct paternal lineage.
The thread — This succession line appears in 2 Kings 24:6 and 2 Kings 24:8, which note Jehoiakim’s death and Jeconiah’s brief reign, and is echoed in Matthew 1:11 as part of the exile-era genealogy.
Why it lands — The verse demands precise attention to historical continuity, showing how biblical records track royal transitions without embellishment to preserve covenant lineage.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 24:6 And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- Matthew 1:11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 24:17 Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
- Jeremiah 22:24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- 2 Kings 25:27 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 1 Chronicles 3:15 The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?