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Zedekiah was the last King of Jud ah, in whose reign it collapsed under the onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, on the Ninth Day of Ab in the year 586 BCE. We may gain some better understanding of this disaster if we summarize the cataclysmic events that preceded it. AA little less than 30 years earlier there had been two regional powers ...
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Jan 29, 2024 · Zedekiah’s Reign as King. Zedekiah began reigning in Judah around 597 BC at the age of 21 (2 Kings 24:18). The author of 2 Kings describes Zedekiah as a wicked king who “did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.” (2 Kings 24:19). The Bible doesn’t record a lot about what specifically Zedekiah did to ...
a. “Zedekiah” – His name was “Mattanias” and was the half-brother of Jehoiakim (2 Ki 23:36). When he was placed upon Judah’s throne by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian Emperor changed the name. This was a typical situation. A special throne-name was selected. He chose “Zedekiah” which literally means “Jehovah is righteous” or ...
Zedekiah King of Judah (). 18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. 19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done. 20 It was because of the Lord ’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his ...
Nov 8, 2019 · “The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah” (v. 17). We get a sense of how bad things were during the final days of Judah when we consider the lengths of the reigns of the final four kings—Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah.
ZEDEKIAH zĕd’ ə kī’ ə (צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ, צִדְקִיָּ֤ה; LXX Σεδεκιας; meaning Yah(u) is my righteousness).1. A son of Chenaanah, one of four hundred false prophets who, in opposition to Micaiah, the true prophet, encouraged Ahab, king of the northern kingdom and Jehoshaphat, king of the southern kingdom, to go to war against the king of Aram in order to ...
