So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Ver. 6. So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers.] Respectu habito ad communem naturae legem; Jehoiakim died, being slain in Jerusalem, and as "an ass cast forth beyond the gates"; Jer 22:18-19 or else, going captive to Babylon, he died by the way, ingloria vita recessit, without burial or mourning. 2Ch 36:6 He is also cut out of the roll of the kings of Judah. Mat 1:11