Jehoiakim (Hebrew יהוֹיָקִים, YHWH has raised up) or Eliakim (Hebrew, God has raised up) (635-r. 610-599 BC according to Ussher, or 634-r. 609-597 BC according to Thiele) was the seventeenth king of the Southern Kingdom of Israel. With him began the final decline of the Southern Kingdom and the captivity of the Jews in Babylonia.