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• JehoiachinPeople

  Jehoiachin was a king of Judah who reigned for about three months before surrendering to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and being carried off to Babylon. Scripture also calls him Jeconiah and Coniah.

• PedaiahPeople

  Pedaiah was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), king of Judah, and appears in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3. First Chronicles 3:19 records him as the father of Zerubbabel. Other passages name Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel, and this discrepancy has been the subject of discussion.

• ShenazarPeople

  Shenazar was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), the king of Judah who was carried captive to Babylon. He is mentioned by name only, in the genealogy of the house of David in 1 Chronicles 3:18. Some scholars identify him with Sheshbazzar.

• ShealtielPeople

  Shealtiel is a biblical figure recorded as the son of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), the king of Judah who was carried captive to Babylon, and as the father of Zerubbabel, who led the rebuilding of the temple. His name also appears in the genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

• NehushtaPeople

  Nehushta was the mother of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), king of Judah, and the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. In the early sixth century BC she was carried off to Babylon with her son in the first Babylonian deportation.

• Jeremiah 24Bible

  Jeremiah 24 records the vision Jeremiah saw before the temple after Jeconiah was carried away to Babylon: two baskets of figs, one good and one bad. The chapter contrasts the future of those taken into exile with that of those who remained in the land.

• 1 Chronicles 3Bible

  1 Chronicles 3 records the sons of David, traces the royal line of Judah from Solomon to Josiah, and carries the genealogy of David's house beyond the Babylonian exile through the descendants of Jeconiah and Zerubbabel.

• ZerubbabelPeople

  Zerubbabel was a descendant of the royal house of David who led the people of Judah home from the Babylonian exile. He served as governor of Judah during the Persian period and, together with the high priest Jeshua, led the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.

• MordecaiPeople

  Mordecai was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin who appears in the Old Testament Book of Esther. He raised his cousin Esther, thwarted Haman's plot to massacre the Jews, and rose to become second only to the king in the Persian Empire.

• Jeremiah 25Bible

  Jeremiah 25 records a word given in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It foretells that Judah will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years, after which Babylon itself will be punished, and it proclaims God's judgment on the world in a scene in which Jeremiah makes Jerusalem and the nations drink the cup of wrath.

• Jeremiah 29Bible

  Jeremiah 29 contains the letter Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the exiles in Babylon. It urges them to build houses in exile and to pray for the peace of the city, promises their return after seventy years, and rebukes the false prophets.

• Jeremiah 29:4–14Bible Verses

  Part of Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon, containing the exhortation to settle in the land of exile and seek the peace of the city, together with the promise of return after seventy years. Verse 11 is widely quoted as a verse of encouragement, though some caution that it must be read in its context.

• UzziahPeople

  Uzziah was an eighth-century BC king of the southern kingdom of Judah who is called Azariah in 2 Kings. He had a long reign and strengthened the nation, but when he attempted to burn incense in the temple he was struck with leprosy and lived apart until his death.