26. Hammelech--not as Margin, "of the king." Jehoiakim at
this time (the fifth year of his reign) had no grown-up son: Jeconiah,
his successor, was then a boy of eleven (compare
2Ki 23:36,
with 2Ki 24:8).
hid them--
(Ps 31:20; 83:3;
Isa 26:20).
JFB.
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