{"id":4231,"date":"2018-11-28T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2018-11-28T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:12:48","slug":"2-chronicles-366-was-jehoiakim-carried-to-babylon-or-did-he-die-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/2-chronicles-366-was-jehoiakim-carried-to-babylon-or-did-he-die-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 36:6\u2014Was Jehoiakim carried to Babylon or did he die in Jerusalem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> The Chronicler declares that Nebuchadnezzar \u201ccame up against him [Jehoiakim], and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.\u201d But elsewhere \u201cJehoiakim rested with his fathers\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ki24.6\">2 Kings 24:6<\/a>) and was \u201cburied with the burial of a donkey, dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Je22.19\">Jer. 22:19<\/a>; cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Je36.30\">36:30<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Apparently, Jehoiakim was bound and fettered with the intention \u201cto carry him off to Babylon\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ch36.6\">2 Chron. 36:6<\/a>), but he was slain instead, and his body ignominiously treated \u201cand cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Je22.19\">Jer. 22:19<\/a>). The phrase \u201crested with his fathers\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ki24.6\">2 Kings 24:6<\/a>) refers to death, not necessarily to a burial in the same place. Of all the kings of Judah, Jehoiakim is the only one whose official burial is not mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: The Chronicler declares that Nebuchadnezzar \u201ccame up against him [Jehoiakim], and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.\u201d But elsewhere \u201cJehoiakim rested with his fathers\u201d (2 Kings 24:6) and was \u201cburied with the burial of a donkey, dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem\u201d (Jer. 22:19; cf. 36:30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}