Secret_History

Chapter 10: Who Wrote the Bible and Why? 455
This means that there are two Zedekiahs. In any event, remember the fourth son
of Josiah, “Shallum”.
In 2 Kings 23, the death of Josiah is recounted. Verses 30 and 31 tell us:
“And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s
stead. Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.”
The only problem at this point is that in the first passage from I Chronicles
above, the four sons of Josiah are listed and none of them are named Jehoahaz.
But, we do notice that the mother of the new king is named as a daughter of
someone named Jeremiah who hails from the town of Libnah. This would mean
that the new king is this Jeremiah’s grandson, and that the dead king, Josiah was
his son-in-law. In other words, Hamutal is the wife of Josiah.
Next we find in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 1:3
It [the word of the Lord] came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Very clearly here, Zedekiah, is the son of Josiah and Hamutal, and is the guy
who is taken captive to Babylon.
Chapter 52 verse 1, tells us the following:
“Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of
Jeremiah of Libnah.”
Remember what the chronology is supposed to be: The first son of Josiah,
Jehoahaz. He is 23 years old when he came to the throne and he ruled for three
months until the Egyptian king dethroned him and hauled him off to Egypt,
placing his brother on the throne. The brother, Jehoiakim ruled as an Egyptian
vassal for eleven years. He died in Battle against the Babylonians.
Jehoiakim’s son, Jehoiachin, ruled for three months, but was captured by the
Babylonians and exiled with everybody who was anybody. The Bible says in 2
Chronicles:
“Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three
months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord.”
I can hardly imagine what an eight year old can do that is evil in only three
months. This is, however, directly contradicted by 2 Kings where it says: