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Jeconiah
Jeconiah ( "Yekonya" , meaning "Yah has established"; ; ), also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin ( ; ), was a king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon in the 6th century BCE and was taken into captivity. He was the son and successor of King Jehoiakim. Most of what is known about Jeconiah is found in the Hebrew Bible. Records of Jeconiah's existence have been found in Iraq, such as the Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets. These tablets were excavated
- Kohenic family, one of the Twenty-four Priestly divisions
- Son of Shemaiah, and officer to King Jehoiakim of Judah. He was one of the officers present at the delivery of a scroll sent by Jeremiah, () and one of those who asked the king not to burn the scroll. (ibid. )
- Son of Elioenai, a descendant of the royal Davidic line through Jeconiah. ()
- The head of a family that came up from the Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel, that was