Jeremiah 52:1

1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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 began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done.

3 Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the Lord that he expelled them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it; they built siegeworks against it all around.

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