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The eighteen-year-old Jehoiachin reigned for only three months, coming to power while the city was being besieged by the mighty Babylonian forces. Jerusalem hardly resisted. As we know, Jerusalem was capable of withstanding a siege for far longer than three months, and no battle or conquest is mentioned in Kings. That being the case, it is reasonable to assume that the king or his advisors made a calculated tradeoff \u2014 to surrender the king in order to save the city. This surrender and the humiliating and devastating exile that followed is dated to the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign. Since Kings hardly ever dates an event by the regnal years of a foreign ruler, this literary device merely underscores the nation’s domination by the Babylonians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nebuchadnezzar, however, is not satisfied with the mere removal of the national figurehead and the appointment of Jehoiachin’s brother Mattaniah, a ruler sympathetic to Babylonia, in his place. First, Mattaniah is renamed Zedekiah. Then Nebuchadnezzar strips the Temple of its golden vessels and empties it and the royal treasury of their wealth. He also exiles the leaders of society. The book of Kings offers a detailed register of the deportees \u2014 the royalty, the aristocracy, the military, skilled craftsmen, and industrialists \u2014 all in all, ten thousand exiles:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylonia. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylonia. And the king of Babylonia brought captive to Babylonia all the men of valor…and the craftsmen and the metal workers (II Kings 24:15-16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the exiles are personalities that we meet elsewhere in Tanakh:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the capital Shushan lived a Jew by the name of Mordecai, son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite. Who had been exiled from Jerusalem in the group that was carried into exile along with King Jeconiah [Jehoiachin] of Judah, which had been driven into exile by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia (Esther 2:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet another character exiled at this time is a priest \u2014 the prophet Ezekiel. The baseline of the dating system that marks his prophecy is the year of Jehoiachin’s exile. Ezekiel’s prophetic role was to offer God’s perspective to the exiles of Judah, as the tumultuous events were befalling Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex Israel, II Kings: In a Whirlwind,<\/em> Maggid Books, 2019, Josiah\u2019s Religious Revolution\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":63310,"id":63310,"title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","filename":"Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-hairy-prophet\/alex-israel-2_kings_cover\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"alex-israel-2_kings_cover","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":63117,"date":"2019-09-23 13:43:41","modified":"2019-09-23 13:53:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Excerpts from: II Kings - 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