Thematic Bible: Or mattaniah, king of judah, son of josiah
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Zedekiah » Or mattaniah, king of judah, son of josiah
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;