Zedekiah Made King

17 (A)Then the king of Babylon made [a]his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18 (B)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was (C)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 24:17 I.e. Jehoiachin’s uncle

Jeremiah Imprisoned

32 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the (A)tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the (B)court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah, because Zedekiah king of Judah had (C)shut him up, saying, “Why do you (D)prophesy, saying, ‘(E)Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to (F)give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

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Jeremiah Warns against Trust in Pharaoh

37 Now (A)Zedekiah the son of Josiah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had (B)made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of (C)Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

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The Fall of Jerusalem

52 (A)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was [a](B)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of (C)Libnah. He did (D)evil in the sight of the Lord like all that (E)Jehoiakim had done. For through the (F)anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah (G)rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:1 Another reading is Hamital