1 Chronicles 3:16

“And the sons of Jehoiakim; Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.] This is not the Zedekiah mentioned in the preceding verse; for he was not the son but the uncle of Jeconiah, unless he should be called his son because he succeeded him in the kingdom; but he seems to be another of that name, nowhere else mentioned, and not the son of Jeconiah in any sense; he is not reckoned among them in the following verses, but of Jehoiakim.”

“Zedekiak - This was another Zedekiah. How seldom has a crown gone in a direct line, from father to son, as it did here, for seventeen generations! This was the recompense of David's piety. About the captivity the lineal descent was interrupted, and the crown went from a nephew to an uncle, a presage of the glory's departing from that house. 1 Chronicles 3:17”

“3:16 The successors of Jehoiakim were his son Jehoiachin and his brother Zedekiah: At the very end of the monarchy of Judah, the sequence of kings did not follow the typical pattern of the eldest son succeeding his father.”

“Jeconiah: Kg2 24:6, Kg2 24:8, Kg2 25:27; Ch2 36:9, Jehoiachin, Jer 22:24, Jer 22:28, Coniah, Mat 1:11, Jechonias Zedekiah: As the sons of Jeconiah are enumerated in the succeeding verse, and as Zedekiah is no where else mentioned as the son of Jeconiah, but as the son of Josiah, it is highly probable that son here means successor. Ch1 3:15; Kg2 24:17, being his uncle 1 Chronicles 3:17”