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2 Kings 24:18-20
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Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother[a] was Hamutal,[b] the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 19 He did evil in the sight of[c] the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.[d]

20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.[e] Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 24:18 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
  2. 2 Kings 24:18 tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”
  3. 2 Kings 24:19 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
  4. 2 Kings 24:19 tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
  5. 2 Kings 24:20 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”
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