person · P0416
Yehoyachin יהויכין
The boy-king of three months who surrendered Jerusalem to Nevuchadnetzar and went into exile with the craftsmen and the Temple treasures — the exile of 3327 that carried Yechezkel (Yechezkel). Thirty-seven years later Evil-Merodach raised his head and set his throne above the kings in Bavel; the exilarchate (Reshut HaGolah) traced its Davidic line through him. Babylonian ration tablets name him in exile — the atlas's sharpest external match.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- יהויכין
- Also known as
- Jehoiachin, Yechonyah, Konyahu
- Era
- bible
- Parents
- Yehoyakim
II. When
- Traditional
- c. 3309–3364 AM (reigned three months in 3327; released in the 37th year of his exile)
- Academic
- reigned 598–597 BCE; released c. 561 BCE
- Lifespan (traditional)
- ≈55 years
- Precision
- approximate
III. Where
- Places
- Jerusalem
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yehoyachin was eighteen years old at accession and reigned three months in Jerusalem, doing evil as his father had done.
Directly stated in the cited source.
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biblical | ★★★★★ | |
| He went out to the king of Bavel with his mother, servants, officers, and eunuchs; Nevuchadnetzar took him in his eighth year, carried off the Temple and palace treasures, and exiled Jerusalem's elite — ten thousand, with all the craftsmen and smiths; none remained but the poorest of the land. | biblical | ★★★★★ | |
| In the thirty-seventh year of his exile, Evil-Merodach king of Bavel lifted Yehoyachin's head, spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings with him in Bavel; he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. | biblical | ★★★★★ | |
| Cuneiform ration tablets from Babylon (c. 592 BCE, Pergamon Museum) allocate oil to "Ya'u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu" and his five sons, and the Babylonian Chronicle dates the capture of Jerusalem and the installation of a new king to 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BCE — the exiled king of Kings, in Babylonian administrative and chronicle records. | external archaeology | ★★★★★ | |
| The placement (reigned three months in 3327 AM) is a schematic Mesorah Atlas reconstruction: the regnal years stated in Kings are chained backward from the First Temple's destruction in 3338 AM, with sub-year reigns counted as zero — the same rule that yields Chizkiyahu 3199–3228. The cited source states the reign's length, not absolute dates.
The cited sources establish relative chronology or regnal duration; they do not state the absolute AM range.
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tradition reconstruction | ★★☆☆☆ |