Zedekiah in Biblical History

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Who is Zedekiah?
ZEDEKI'AH
(justice of Jehovah). 1. The last king of Judah, the son of Josiah, and the uncle of Jehoiachin. His proper name was "Mattaniah," but Nebuchadnezzar changed it to "Zedekiah" when raising him to the throne. He commenced his reign at twenty-one, and reigned eleven years, 598-588 b.c. 2 Chr 36:11. He was a weak man, and the people were completely demoralized. He had not courage to vindicate Jeremiah, but allowed the people to be led astray by false prophets; and the consequence was disastrous. In the ninth year of his reign he revolted against Nebuchadnezzar, in consequence of which the Assyrian monarch marched his army into Judaea and took all the fortified places. In the eleventh year of his reign, on the ninth day of the fourth month (July), Jerusalem was taken. The king and his people endeavored to escape by night, but, the Chaldaean troops pursuing them, they were overtaken in the plain of Jericho. Zedekiah was seized and carried to Nebuchadnezzar, then at Riblah, in Syria, who reproached him with his perfidy, caused all his children to be slain before his face and his own eyes to be put out, and then, loading him with chains of brass, ordered him to be sent to Babylon. 2 Kgs 25:1-11; 2 Chr 36:12, 2 Chr 36:20. Thus the double prophecy concerning him - that he should be carried to Babylon, but never see it - was literally fulfilled. Jer 32:4-5; Jer 34:3; comp. Eze 12:13. 2. A false prophet in the reign of Ahab. 1 Kgs 22:11, 1 Kgs 22:24-25; 2 Chr 18:10, 2 Chr 18:23-24. 3. A false prophet who was put to death by Nebuchadnezzar. Jer 29:21-22. 1. One of the princes at the court of Jehoiakim. Jer 36:12.

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