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2 Kings 24:17-19
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 24:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah king in his father’s stead, and he changed his name to Zedekiah.
18 Reign of Zedekiah.[a] Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal. She was the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
19 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, everything that Jehoiakim had done.
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- 2 Kings 24:18 Zedekiah brings the sin of Judah to its completion and hastens the destruction of the country. The section from 24:18—25:30 is repeated as the conclusion of the Book of Jeremiah (ch. 52). In Jer 37–38, there is also a record of the meetings and conversation between the prophet (who urges the uselessness of resistance) and the king.
