Jeremiah 52:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

1 ¹Zedekiah was twenty-one * years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven * years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was ²Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of ³Libnah.

Jeremiah 52:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:1

Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
&c.] Whose name was Mattaniah; and who was set on the throne by the king of Babylon, in the room of his brother's son Jehoiachin, ( 2 Kings 24:17 2 Kings 24:18 ) ; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem;
so that he was thirty two years of age when he was taken and carried captive into Babylon: and his mother's name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah;
see ( 2 Kings 24:18 ) .

Jeremiah 52:1 In-Context

1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

5 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:11
• 2. 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18
• 3. Joshua 10:29; 2 Kings 8:22; Isaiah 37:8

Footnotes

• [a]. Another reading is "Hamital"