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.

^18 (B)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^(C)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Hananiah’s False Prophecy

28 Now in the same year, ^(A)in the beginning of the reign of ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, ^(C)Hananiah the prophet the son of Azzur, who was from ^(D)Gibeon, spoke to me at the house of the Lord in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,