Sedekias

SEDEKIAS

sed-e-ki'-as:

(1) (Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Sedekias; the King James Version Zedechias):

1 Esdras 1:46 (44) = Zedekiah king of Judah; also in Baruch 1:8 where the King James Version reads "Sedecias."

(2) In Baruch 1:1 (the King James Version "Sedecias"), an ancestor of Baruch, "the son of Asadias," sometimes (but incorrectly) identified with the false prophet "Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah" (Jeremiah 29:21).