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2 Kings 24:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. "

2 Kings 24:17

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15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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2 Chronicles 36:10

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"At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the LORD’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem."

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Jeremiah 37:1

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"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."

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Jeremiah 52:1

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"Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah."

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1 Chronicles 3:16

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"The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son."

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2 Chronicles 36:1

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"Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem."

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2 Kings 14:21

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"All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah."

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2 Kings 24:1

"In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him."

2 Kings 24:2

"The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke by his servants the prophets."

2 Kings 24:3

"Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,"

2 Kings 24:4

"and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon."

2 Kings 24:5

"Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"

2 Kings 24:6

"So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place."

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