Who Was Alive
Jehoiakim
Published by Guillaume Rouille(1518?-1589), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jehoiakim

King of Judah

Born 634 BC · died 598 BC, aged 35 or 36
Also known as Eliakim

Who was alive at the same time as Jehoiakim?

  1. Ashurbanipal, 685–631 BC
  2. Ancus Marcius, 675–616 BC
  3. Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 642 – c. 561 BC
  4. Jehoiakim, 634–598 BC
  5. Solon, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  6. Cleobulus, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  7. Stesichorus, 630–555 BC
  8. Aesop, c. 620 – c. 564 BC
  9. Nabonidus, c. 615 – 538 BC
  10. Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  11. Sushruta, 600–500 BC

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When Jehoiakim died, Stesichorus was 31 or 32.

Born during Jehoiakim’s lifetime: Aesop, Solon, Anaximander, Sushruta, Nabonidus, Cleobulus and Stesichorus.

Not quite contemporaries: Anaximenes of Miletus was born about 10 years after Jehoiakim died, Archilochus died about 8 years before Jehoiakim was born, Tullus Hostilius died about 8 years before Jehoiakim was born and Amon of Judah died about 6 years before Jehoiakim was born.

Where Jehoiakim’s contemporaries were born

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