Mulek was king Jeconiah

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On 12 jul, 01:31, Nick Youngh <dejonghn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > But I do not think, that Mulek was a son of Zedekiah.
> > Mulek according to you and me, means king and Zedekiah had no sons who
> > became king.
> > But there was allready a Jewidh king in Babylon before Zedekiah
> > arrived there, Jehoyakim, his younger nephew, who was deported a few
> > years earlier, but remained the king of the Jews and was on the
> > Babylonean food ration list.
>
> (Wikipedia)
> Jeconiah (Hebrew: יְכָנְיָה‎ [jəχonjoː], meaning "God will fortify
> (his people)"; Greek: Ιεχονιας; Latin: Joachin), also known as Coniah
> and as Jehoiachin (Hebrew: יְהֹויָכִין‎ [jəhoːjɔːxiːn]; Greek:
> Ιεχονιας; Latin: Joachin), was a king of Judah.
>
> According to 2 Kings 24:8, he became king upon the death of his
> father, Jehoiakim, at the age of eighteen and reigned for only three
> months and ten days.[1] However, most Hebrew versions, some Septuagint
> manuscripts and Syriac versions of 2 Chronicles 36:9 give the age when
> he became king as eight, compared with other versions which give it as
> eighteen (e.g., 2 Chronicles 36:9). The Vulgate has the discrepancy,
> which the Challenor note in the Douay-Rheims Bible reconciles the
> discrepancy: "He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when he
> was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he reigned
> alone, he was eighteen years old."[2] Edwin Thiele dates Jeconiah's
> short reign to 598/597 BC.[3] He was deposed by the Babylonians at the
> end of the first siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BC,
> after which Jeconiah, his household, and many of the elite and
> craftsmen of Judah were exiled to Babylon.
>
> Babylonian records, called Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets, written in
> Cuneiform and dating to 592 BC mention him and his five sons as
> recipients of food ration in Babylon,[4] though it would have been
> difficult for him to have had five sons in the time frame attributed
> to him.
>
> Jeconiah was a contemporary of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
>
> Jeconiah reigned for three months and ten days,[1] and was deposed by
> the Babylonians at the end of the first siege of Jerusalem by
> Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BC, when Jeconiah, his household, and many of
> the elite and craftsmen of Judah were exiled to Babylon.
>
> The Babylonians installed Jeconiah's uncle, Zedekiah, as king of Judah
> in his place; while Jeconiah was taken to Babylon and compelled to
> remain there. In Babylon, the deported Jews continued to regard
> Jeconiah as the legitimate king of Judah, and later would be regarded
> as the first of the exilarchs.
>
> Cuneiform records dated to 592 BC mention Jeconiah ("Ia-'-ú-kinu") and
> his five sons as recipients of food rations in Babylon as evidenced by
> Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets, which are 6th century BC tablets
> excavated from Babylon near the Ishtar Gate.[4] He was still called
> king while in captivity.
>
> Dates in the book of Ezekiel are given according to the year of
> captivity of Jeconiah, and Ezekiel never mentions by name his
> successor, Zedekiah.
>
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