Looking Back for Jehoiachin

Looking Back for Jehoiachin examines the life and legacy of the last living Davidic king during the Babylonian captivity. It investigates the names Yehoyachin, Yeconiah, and Coniahu in the Hebrew Bible, Yechonias in the Septuagint, Intertestamental literature, and the New Testament. It also surveys those extrabiblical inscriptions that contribute to a thorough account of this king.The ninety- to one-hundred-day "evil" tenure of Jehoiachin and his exile to Babylon should have finalized the evalua