Made Eliakim.. king] Jehoahaz had been chosen by the people without the sanction of Nechoh, who therefore asserted his authority by deposing him, and substituting his brother. In the room of Josiah] Nechoh did not recognise Jehoahaz. Turned his name to Jehoiakim] The bestowal of a new name by Nechoh upon Eliakim indicated that the latter was a subject or vassal prince of the Egyptian king. For a similar change cp. 2 Kings 24:17, and see Genesis 41:45; Daniel 1:7 (where, however, the new names are foreign, not, as here, Hebrew).

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