2Ki 23:35-37 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Kings 23:35-37 (NET)

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23:35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho.

Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah

23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah. 23:37 He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Jehoiakim son of Josiah; made king of Judah by Pharaoh Neco

· Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin

· Neco the king of Egypt in the time of Josiah of Judah

· Pedaiah a man of Rumah; father of Zebidah, the mother of King Jehoiakim,son of King Jehoiachin,a man of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Saul and David's time,a man who helped rebuild the wall of Jerusalem; son of Parosh,a man who stood with Ezra when he read the law to the assembly,son of Kolaiah of Benjamin; a returned exile

· Pharaoh the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Abraham's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Joseph's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who refused to let Israel leave Egypt,the title of the king of Egypt whose daughter Solomon married,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in the time of Isaiah,the title Egypt's ruler just before Moses' time

· Rumah a town SE of Shechem (OS)

· Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; mother of King Jehoiakim