Jehoiakim's son, three names for one doomed boy-king: JEHOIACHIN (his full name), JECONIAH, and the clipped, almost contemptuous CONIAH that Jeremiah uses here (22:24, 28). Eighteen years old, three months on the throne, when Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem in the first great deportation (597 BC) and carried him to Babylon with the treasures and the craftsmen and ten thousand captives — the exile Ezekiel and the young Daniel's world. Jeremiah's oracle strips him of authority in one image: even were he 'a signet on my right hand, yet from there I would tear you off,' and 'write this man childless.' Yet the curse is throne-deep, not blood-deep: he fathered seven sons in exile (1 Chronicles 3:17), was released from prison and given a seat at the Babylonian king's table thirty-seven years later (2 Kings 25:27-30) — a mercy corroborated by the excavated BABYLON RATION TABLETS, which list oil and grain for 'Ya'u-kinu, king of Judah' and his sons by name. His grandson Zerubbabel is handed the signet back (Haggai 2:23), and both Gospel genealogies of the Messiah pass through his line — the king 'written childless' as to David's old throne became an ancestor of the one who inherits a greater one.