Who succeeded Jehoiakim as king?
Jeremiah denies Jehoiakim a successor on David's throne, yet Kings says his son reigned in his place.
- Textual conflict
- Direct contradiction
- The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
A prediction that Jehoiakim has nobody on David's throne conflicts with the explicit accession of his son.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jehoiakim's son Jehoiachin succeeds him as king
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Jehoiakim is told he will have nobody on David's throne
Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.