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.

¹⁵ The sons of Josiah were Johanan, the firstborn, the second was Jehoiakim, the third, Zedekiah, and the fourth, Shallum.

Zedekiah Rules in Judah

^11 (A)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹² He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God; ^(B)he did not humble himself ^(C)before Jeremiah the prophet ^[a]who spoke for the Lord. ^13 (D)He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear allegiance by God. But ^(E)he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.

² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was ^(A)breached.