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Reign of Zedekiah

596 BC, lasting 11 years traditional (Jones)

Passage
2 Kgs 24:18–25:7
Person
Zedekiah
Places
Libnah, Jerusalem, Babylon, Arabah, Jericho, Riblah
Before
Reign of Jeconiah
After
Prophecies of Obadiah

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Places

Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. possible location: Libnah
  2. likely location: Jerusalem
  3. likely location: Babylon
  4. location not graded: Arabah
  5. likely location: Jericho
  6. likely location: Riblah

Every verse

All 10 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Kings10 verses
  1. 24:18

    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

  2. 24:19

    And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

  3. 24:20

    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

  4. 25:1

    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

  5. 25:2

    And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

  6. 25:3

    By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

  7. 25:4

    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

  8. 25:5

    but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.

  9. 25:6

    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.

  10. 25:7

    And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.