2 Kings 24:17
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Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. (NASB ©1995)

2 Chronicles 36:10 At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD, and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 37:1 Now Zedekiah the son of Josiah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim. (NASB ©1995)


And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

the king. 2Ch 36:10,11 Jer 37:1 52:1

his father's brother. He was son of Josiah, brother to Jehoiakim, and uncle of Jehoiachin.

1Ch 3:15,16 2Ch 36:10

changed. The change of name was to shew Nebuchadnezzar's supremacy, and that Zedekiah was only his vassal or viceroy. The custom of changing names, we are assured by travellers, still exists in the East.

23:34 2Ch 36:4

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