Turned his name to Jehoiakim— It was usual for conquerors to change the names of the persons whom they vanquished in war, in testimony of their absolute power over them. Thus we find the king of Babylon changing the name of Mattaniah into Zedekiah, when he constituted him king of Judah; ch. 2 Kings 24:17. Archbishop Usher has further remarked, that the king of Egypt gave Eliakim the name of Jehoiakim, (that is, "the God of Israel hath, or shall make it to prosper,") thereby to testify that he ascribed his victory over the Babylonians to Jehovah, the God of Israel, by whose excitation, as he pretended, 2 Chronicles 35:21-22 he undertook the expedition.
Note; With Josiah perished all the glory of Judah. Like a man mortally wounded, the kingdom gasped a while under his sons, and then expired, as it were, under Nebuchadhezzar's invasion.