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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 2. "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand." The fact that Jehoiachim is recorded to have been given over shows that it was not a victory for the might of his enemies but rather it was of the will of the Lord. "...and some of the vessels of the house of God, and he brought them to the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he conveyed them into the treasure house of his god" (Gen. 11). …
Hippolytus of Rome
And so after his deportation his son Jehoiakim reigned three years. And so Nebuchadnezzar arose against him and deported both him and ten thousand men of the people into Babylon and set in his place Jeconiah the brother of his father, whom also changed his name to Zedekiah, with whom he, having made oaths and covenants, returned to Babylon. He, after reigning eleven years, withdrew from Nebuchadnezzar and gave himself to Pharaoh king of Egypt. …
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