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<li> The original name of Jehoiakim, king of [[Judah]] (2 Kings 23:34 ). He was the son of Josiah. <div> <p> [[Copyright]] StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, [[Third]] Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Eliakim'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/e/eliakim.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> 1. Hilkiah's son, over Hezekiah's household (Isaiah 36:3). As [[Joseph]] over Pharaoh's palace, [[Azrikam]] "governor of Ahaz' house" (2 Chronicles 28:7); chamberlain, treasurer, prefect of the palace (Genesis 41:40), chief minister. Successor of Shebna, whose deposition for his pride was foretold (Isaiah 22:15-20). Elevated at the time of the [[Assyrian]] invasion as the one most adapted to meet such a crisis. Same as [[Azariah]] son of [[Hilkiah]] (1 Chronicles 6:13); the same man often bearing two names (Kimchi). [[God]] calls him "My servant": a pious patriot (compare 2 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 19:1-5). A "father to (counseling, befriending, and defending) the inhabitants of [[Jerusalem]] and to the inhabitants of Judah." </p> <p> [[Type]] of Messiah: "the key of the house of [[David]] will I lay upon his shoulder (the key hung from the kerchief on the shoulder as emblem of his office, or figuratively for sustaining the government on his shoulder); so he shall open and none shall shut:, and he shall shut and none shall open;" i.e., all access to the royal house shall be through him. Antitypically, "the government shall be upon Messiah's shoulder" (Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 22:22); He shuts or opens at will the access to the heavenly mansion (Revelation 3:7), He has the keys also of hell (the grave) and death (Revelation 1:18). </p> <p> As [[Eliakim]] supplanted Shebna, so [[Christ]] the [[Heir]] of David's throne shall supplant all the stewards who abuse their trust in God's spiritual house, the church and the world (hereafter to become coextensive with the church): Hebrews 3:2-6. For the rest of Isaiah's imagery as to Eliakim, (See NAIL; SHEBNA, when degraded, was "scribe" (i.e. secretary, remembrancer, keeping the king informed on important facts, historiographer) under Eliakim (2 Kings 18:37), who became "treasurer," or as [[Hebrew]] coken (Isaiah 22:15) from caakan , "to dwell" means, intimate friend of the king, dwelling on familiar terms, and "steward of the provisions" (compare 1 Chronicles 27:33). </p> <p> 2. King JEHOIAKIM'S original name. </p> <p> 3. Nehemiah 12:41. </p> <p> 4. Luke 3:26; Matthew 1:13. </p> <p> 5. Luke 3:30-31. </p>

<p> '''''ē̇''''' -'''''lı̄´a''''' -'''''kim''''' ( אליקים , <i> ''''''elyāḳı̄m''''' </i> ; Ἐλιακείμ , <i> '''''Eliakeı́m''''' </i> , "God sets up"): </p> <p> (1) The son of [[Hilkiah]] who succeeded [[Shebna]] as gorvernor of the palace and "grand vizier" under [[Hezekiah]] (Isaiah 22:20 ). The functions of his office are seen from the oracle of Isaiah in which Shebna is deposed and [[Eliakim]] set in his place (Isaiah 22:15 ). He is the "treasurer" (the Revised Version, margin "steward"), and is "over the house" (Isaiah 22:15 ). At his installation he is clothed with a robe and girdle, the insignia of his office, and, having the government committed into his hand, is the "father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah" (Isaiah 22:21 ). The key of the house of [[David]] is laid on his shoulder, and he alone has power to open and shut, this being symbolic of his absolute authority as the king's representative (Isaiah 22:22 ). </p> <p> One of Solomon's officials is the first mentioned as occupying this position (1 Kings 4:6 ), and this office was continued in both the [[Northern]] and Southern [[Kingdom]] (1 Kings 16:9; 1 Kings 18:3; 2 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 15:5 ). Its importance is seen from the fact that after [[Azariah]] was smitten with leprosy, [[Jotham]] his heir "was over the household, judging the people of the land" (2 Kings 15:5 ). </p> <p> When [[Sennacherib]] sent an army against [[Jerusalem]] in 701, Eliskim was one of these [[Jewish]] princes who held on behalf of Hezekiah a parley with the [[Assyrian]] officers (2 Kings 18:18 , 2 Kings 18:26 , 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:3 , Isaiah 36:11 , Isaiah 36:22 ). As a result of the invader's threats, he was sent by Hezekiah in sackcloth to Isaiah, entreating his prayers to [[Yahweh]] on behalf of Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:2; Isaiah 37:2 ). </p> <p> (2) The original name of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, whom Pharaoh-necoh made king of [[Judah]] (2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4 ). </p> <p> (3) A priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, rebuilt after his return from [[Babylon]] (Nehemiah 12:41 ). </p> <p> (4) A grandson of [[Zerubbabel]] and ancestor of [[Jesus]] (Matthew 1:13 ). </p> <p> (5) An ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:30 ). </p>

<p> (Hebrews Elyakim', אֶלְיָקַיַם whom [[God]] will raise up; Sept. Ε᾿λιακίμ and Ε᾿λιακείμ; N.T. Ε᾿λιακείμ; Josephus, Ε᾿λιάκιμος , Ant. 10:1, 2; Vulg. Eliacim), the name of five men. </p> <p> 1. The son of [[Melea]] and father of Jonan, in the genealogy (q.v.) of [[Christ]] (Luke in, 30); probably the grandson of Nathan, of the private line of David's descent (Strong's Harm. and Expos. page 16). B.C. considerably post 1013. </p> <p> 2. [[Son]] of Hilkiah, and praefect of the palace under king Hezekiah, who sent him to receive the message of the invading Assyrians, and report it to Isaiah (2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 19:2; Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 36:11; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah 37:2). B.C. 713. He succeeded [[Shebna]] in this office after the latter had been ejected from it (Grotius thinks by reason of his leprosy) as a punishment for his pride (Isaiah 22:15-20). [[Eliakim]] was a good man, as appears by the title emphatically applied to him by God, "my servant Eliakim" (Isaiah 22:20), and as was evinced by his conduct on the occasion of Sennacherib's invasion (2 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 19:1-5), and also in the discharge of the duties of his high station, in which he acted as a "father to the inhabitants of [[Jerusalem]] and to the house of Judah" (Isaiah 22:21). It was as a special mark of the divine approbation of his character and conduct, of which, however, no further details have been preserved to us, that he was raised to the post of authority and dignity which he held at the time of the [[Assyrian]] invasion. What this office was has been a subject of some perplexity to commentators. The ancients, including the Sept. and Jerome, understood it of the priestly office, as appears by the rendering of סֹכֵן (Isaiah 22:15; A.V. "treasurer") by παστοφόριον , the "priest's chamber," by the former, and of עִל 9הִבִּיַת ("over the house," as Isaiah 36:3) by "praepositus templi," by the latter. Hence Nicephorus, as well as the author of the [[Alexandrian]] Chronicle, includes in the list of high priests Somnas or Sobnas (i.e., Shebna), and Eliakim, identifying the latter with [[Shallum]] or Meshullam. But it is certain from the description of the office in Isaiah 22:1-25, and especially from the expression in Isaiah 22:22, "The key of the house of [[David]] will I lay upon his shoulder," that it was the king's house, and not the house of God, of which Eliakim was praefect, as [[Ahishar]] had been in the reign of [[Solomon]] (1 Kings 4:6), and [[Azrikam]] in that of [[Ahaz]] (2 Chronicles 28:7). With this agrees both all that is said, and all that is not said, of Eliakim's functions. The office seems to have been the highest under the king, as was the case in Egypt, when [[Pharaoh]] said to Joseph, "Thou shalt be over my house (עִלבֵּיתַי ) ... only in the throne will I [[Le]] greater than thou" (Genesis 41:40; compare 39:4). In 2 Chronicles 28:7, the officer is called "governor (נָגַרד ) of the house." It is clear that the "scribe" was inferior to him, for Shebna, when degraded from the prefecture of the house, acted as scribe under Eliakim (2 Kings 18:37). The whole description of it too by Isaiah implies a place of great eminence and power. This description is transferred in a mystical or spiritual sense to Christ the son of David in Revelation 3:7, thus making Eliakim in some sense typical of Christ. The true meaning of סֹכֵן, soken', is very doubtful. "Friend," i.e., of the king, and "steward of the provisions," are the two most probable significations. (See [[Treasurer]]). Eliakim's career was a most honorable and splendid one. Most commentators agree that Isaiah 22:25 does not apply to him, but to Shebna. </p> <p> 3. The original name of [[Jehoiakim]] (q.v.), king of [[Judah]] (2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4). </p> <p> 4. Son of [[Abiud]] and father of Azor, of the posterity of [[Zerubbabel]] (Matthew 1:13). He is probably identical with the SHECHANIAH (See [[Shechaniah]]) (q.v.) of 1 Chronicles in, 21 (Strong's [[Harmony]] and Expos. of the Gospels, page 11). (See [[Genealogy]] (Of Christ).) </p> <p> 5. A priest in the days of Nehemiah, who assisted at the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 12:41). B.C. 446. </p>