Jeremiah 52:1

Zedekiah was a son of twenty-one years when he first began to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

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

In Context

2And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, in accord with all that Jehoiakim had done.

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Cross References

Joshua 10:29Then he went on, with all of Israel, from Makkedah to Libnah, and he fought against it.

2 Kings 8:22And Idumea drew apart, so as not to be under Judah, even to this day. Then Libnah also drew apart, at the same time.

2 Kings 25:1Then it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, arrived against Jerusalem. And they encircled it, and they constructed fortifications all around it.

Jeremiah 39:1In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, with his entire army, and they besieged it.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 52:1

History is the best expositor of prophecy; and therefore, for the better understanding of the prophecies of this book which relate to the destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah, we are here furnished with an account of that sad event. It is much he same with the history we had 2 Kings xxiv. and xxv. , and many of the particulars we had before in that book, but the matter is here repeated and put together, to give light to the book of the Lamentations, which follows next, and to serve as a key to it.… Read the whole commentary →

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