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'''Exilarch''', title given to the head of the Babylonian Jews (see [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=548&letter=E&search=exilarch here]).

"A chronicle of about the year 800—the Seder 'Olam Zuṭa—fills up the gaps in the early history of the exilarch by constructing an account according to which the first exilarch was no less a person than Jehoiachin, the last king but one of the house of David, whom the exilarchs regarded as their ancestor." (see [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=548&letter=E&search=exilarch here]).

==1 Chronicles==
Those men who should be the Exilarchs per the descents given in First Chronicles:
*(3:16) The successors of Jehoiakim: Jehoiachin his son, and Zedekiah. The Royal Line After the Exile
*(3:17) The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son
*(3:18)Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.
*(3:19) The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei.  The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah.  Shelomith was their sister.
*(3:21) The descendants of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, and the sons of Rephaiah, of Arnan, of Obadiah and of Shecaniah.
*(3:22) The descendants of Shecaniah:  Shemaiah and his sons:  Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat—six in all.
*(3:23) The sons of Neariah:  Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam—three in all.
* (3:24) The sons of Elioenai:  Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani—seven in all.

==Seder 'Olan Zuta==
See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seder_Olam_Zutta Wikipedia]
A chronicle of about the year 800—the Seder 'Olam Zuṭa—fills up the gaps in the early history of the exilarch by constructing an account according to which the first exilarch was no less a person than Jehoiachin, the last king but one of the house of David, whom the exilarchs regarded as their ancestor.