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Jun 22, 2022 · Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, meaning he would have only been about 10 when his father, Josiah, died and his brother Jehoahaz became king. Zedekiah ruled for 11 years but continued on all the evil of his brothers and nephew Jehoiachin ( 2 Kings 24: 18–20 ).
Sep 28, 2012 · King Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, and he ruled Judah for 11 years around 588 B.C. His name means “the justice of God” and the people of Judah experienced God’s justice against their sins during his reign.
Jan 15, 2014 · Zedekiah is the 20th and last ruler of the southern kingdom of Judah, who reigned for 11 years (597—586 b.c.). His original name was Mattaniah, but Nebuchadnezzar changed it to Zedekiah when he appointed him king in place of his nephew Jehoiachin (2 Ki 24:17 1 Chr 3:15).
Zedekiah. 1. The twentieth and last king of Judah, son of Josiah and Hamutal, and uncle to Jeconiah his predecessor, 2 Kings 24:17,19 Jeremiah 52:1.When Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem, he carried Jeconiah to Babylon, with his wives, children, officers, and the best artificers in Judea, and put in his place his uncle Mattaniah, whose name he changed to Zedekiah, and made him promise with an oath ...
- The First Exile
- Jehoiachin Surrenders on The 2nd of Adar
- Babylonians Recognize Two Kings of Judah
- Two Kings– Two Judean Peoples?
- Shemaiah’s Letter: Stop Jeremiah
- A Permanent Rejection of Jehoiachin
- Jehoiachin Freed from Prison in Adar
- The Importance of Zerubbabel
A little over eleven and a half years before the destruction of the First Temple in 586B.C.E., an eighteen year old lad named Jehoiachin ascended the throne of Judah precisely as the Babylonian army was marching toward Jerusalem to lay a siege on the city. Jehoiachin’s father, Jehoiakim, had incurred the wrath of the Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar ...
The biblical text does not provide a more precise time frame for Jehoiachin’s three-month reign and Nebuchadnezzar’s attack. The Akkadian text known as the Babylonian Chronicle Number 5fills in the missing details as follows: This invaluable source identifies the date of Jehoiachin’s surrender as the second of Adar in Nebuchadrezzar’s seventh regna...
The Babylonians appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle as king in Judah: Yet at the same time we know, from administrative texts referring to the food rations that Jehoiachin and his sons were assigned in prison, that the Babylonians themselves continued to refer to Jehoiachin as the king of Judah, even while he and his sons were incarcerated.We do not know ...
The exile of the eighteen year old king and the cohort of Judean nobility that went with him set into motion an unprecedented situation of two separate, and to a great extent rival, communities of Judeans – one which remained in Jerusalem under the leadership of the Babylonian-sponsored king Zedekiah, and the other which was deported to Babylonia a...
This stance was shared by another prophet, Shemaiah the Nehelamite,who as a member of the Judean community already in Babylonia, objected to Jeremiah’s missive encouraging the Babylonian Judeans to prepare for an extended sojourn in exile. Shemaiah’s machinations against Jeremiah along with Jeremiah’s reaction are reported in God’s rebuke to Shemai...
As opposed to the expectation that Jehoiachin and his fellow exiles would be restored soon to Jerusalem, there were those, especially among the Jerusalem community, who interpreted the events of 597 as indicating that God had rejected Jehoiachin and those exiled with him. This point of view is cited most succinctly (and disapprovingly) in Ezekiel 1...
So was there a “happy ending” for Jehoiachin? Was his family given a future in Judean leadership? This question cannot be answered conclusively due to the enigmatic nature of the sources at our disposal. The much-debated last paragraph of the Book of Kings tells of Jehoiachin’s eventual release from prison (2 Kings 25:27–30): The new Babylonian kin...
Another set of texts related to the fate and status of Jehoiachin’s family centers around the figure of Zerubbabel, first governor of Judah, mentioned in the context of the second year of the Persian king Darius I (520B.C.E.), at which time he played an active part in the rebuilding of the Second Temple (Hag 1:14–15; see also Zech 4:8–10). Zerubbab...
Zedekiah. "Righteousness of Yahweh." The last king of Judah. He was the third son of Josiah, and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and hence he was the brother of Jehoahaz. 1 His original name was Mattaniah, "Gift of God"; but when Nebuchadnezzar placed him on the throne as the successor to Jehoiachin he changed ...
Aug 4, 2022 · Zedekiah spent his first few years on the throne as a loyal vassal, but then he too rebelled. Zedekiah’s Reign and Rebellion. The extant records in the Babylonian Chronicle end with Nebuchadnezzar’s 10 th and 11 th regnal years, 595–594 B.C.E. These years were difficult for Nebuchadnezzar, who had to contend with the rebellion in ...
