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Zedekiah was twenty-one*yearsold when he becameking, and he reignedeleven*years in Jerusalem; and his mother'sname was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judahuntil He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiahrebelled against the king of Babylon.
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Now it came about in the ninthyear of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenthmonth, that Nebuchadnezzarking of Babyloncame, he and all his army, againstJerusalem, campedagainst it and built a siegewallallaround it.