2 Kgs 24:8
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Jehoiachin.
1Chr 3:16; Jer 24:1
Jeconiah.
Jer 22:24; Jer 22:28; Jer 37:1
Coniah.
Matt 1:11; Matt 1:12
Jechonias.
eighteen years.
In the parallel place, he is said to be only eight years old; but this must be a mistake, for we find that having reigned only three months, he was carried captive to Babylon, and there had wives; and had he been of such a tender age, it could scarcely have been said that, as a king, "he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord."
2Ch 36:9