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Did Jehoiakim die in Babylon or near Jerusalem?
Chronicles describes intended transport to Babylon, while Jeremiah predicts disposal of Jehoiakim's corpse outside Jerusalem. Neither explicitly states where he dies.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Intended deportation does not establish death in Babylon, and disposal outside Jerusalem does not independently locate the death itself.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jehoiakim is bound for intended transport to Babylon
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:5-6
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Jehoiakim's body will be cast beyond Jerusalem's gates
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:18-19
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)