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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 24:17 I.e., Jehoiachin’s uncle

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,

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