Jehoiakim ("he whom Jehovah has set up", also sometimes spelled Jehoikim, c. 635-597 BCE), is a king of Judah.

He was the second son of king Josiah by Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.His birth name was Eliakim.

On Josiah's death, Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz (or Shallum) was proclaimed king, but after three months pharaoh Necho II deposed him and replaced him with the eldest son, Eliakim,who adopted the name Jehoiakim and became king at the age of twenty-five.

Jehoahaz died in exile in Egypt.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, reigned for eleven years to 598 BCE, and was succeeded by his son Jeconiah, (also known as Jehoiachin), who reigned for only three months.