Jeremiah 52:1

It was the twenty-first year of Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena.

Brenton Septuagint

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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.

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Cross References

Joshua 10:29And Joshua and all Israel with him departed out of Makeda to Lebna, and besieged Lebna.

2 Kings 8:22Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Juda till this day. Then Lobna revolted at that time.

2 Kings 25:1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a + 25:1 Or, circumvallation.mound against it.

Jeremiah 39:1The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.

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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