The Jehoiachin ration tablets
The exiled king of Judah, and even his sons, appear in Babylon's own ration lists — exactly the situation 2 Kings describes when it says he ate at the king's table.
Außerbiblisch genanntObjektc. 592 BC
Administrative tablets listing oil rations issued from the royal stores in Babylon. Among the recipients: "Yaukin, king of the land of Yahudu" — Jehoiachin of Judah — and his sons. Palace bookkeeping, written with no interest in the Bible, records a deported Judahite king being maintained at the Babylonian court.
10 sila of oil to Yaukin, king of the land of Yahudu; 2½ sila to the five sons of the king of Yahudu.
- Gefunden
- A storeroom near the Ishtar Gate, Babylon, 1899 — Robert Koldewey's excavation (published by E. F. Weidner, 1939)
- Heute in
- Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
- Sprache
- Akkadian
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The identification of Yaukin with Jehoiachin is standard and secure.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A routine citation in secular studies of the Babylonian exile and of Neo-Babylonian administration.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Weidner, "Jojachin, König von Juda, in babylonischen Keilschrifttexten" (1939)
- Jehoiachin's rations tablets — overview
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