2 Kings 1:17

1:17

Jehoram ......... Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]

As it is said in ch. 3:1, that he began his reign in the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat, it is supposed that Jehoshaphat admitted his son Jehoram to reign with him eight or nine years before his death. "The second year that Jehoram was Prorex, and the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat."

second <08147> [in the second.]

2 Kings 24:17

24:17

king <04428> [the king.]

uncle <01730> [his father's brother.]

He was son of Josiah, brother to Jehoiakim, and uncle of Jehoiachin.

<05437> [changed.]

The change of name was to shew Nebuchadnezzar's supremacy, and that Zedekiah was only his vassal or viceroy. The custom of changing names, we are assured by travellers, still exists in the East.