So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. This phraseology can mean nothing more than that he died, because he was not buried with his royal ancestors; and whether he fell in battle, or his body was subjected to posthumous insults, he was, according to the prediction, Jeremiah 22:19, not honoured with the rites of sepulture (Jeremiah 36:30).
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. The very brief reign of this prince, which lasted only three months, during which be was a humble vassal of the Assyrians, is scarcely deserving to be taken into account, and therefore is no way contradictory to the prophetic menace denounced against his father (Jeremiah 36:30).