Divided Kingdom
Jehoiachin taken to Babylon
Jehoiachin taken to Babylon is dated 597 BC in the Modern reckoning and 598 BC in the Traditional. It is told in 2 Kings 24:12. Jehoiachin is part of it.
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon.
So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- 597 BC
- Traditional reckoning
- 598 BC
- How it's dated
- Babylonian records
The Babylonian Chronicle dates Jerusalem's surrender to 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BC.
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Sources: Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 5, BM 21946).
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
- Jehoiachin
Where: Jerusalem.
Which verses connect to 2 Kings 24:12?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Jeremiah 24:15 votes
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 52:285 votes
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- 2 Kings 25:274 votes
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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:104 votes
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 29:1–24 votes
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
- Jeremiah 25:13 votes
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.