2 Chronicles 36:11
9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
12 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.
13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
- KJV
- Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
- WEB
- Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
- ASV
- Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
- DARBY
- Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
- BLB
- Zedekiah [was] a son of twenty-one years in his reigning, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
- ÅB
- Sedekias var en og tyve år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte elleve år i Jerusalem.
- OTB
- Sidkia, i en alder av tjue-en, ble konge og regjerte i elleve år i Jerusalem.
- B1930
- Sedekias var en og tyve år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte elleve år i Jerusalem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 24:18–20
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 28:1
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Read in contextJeremiah 27:1
At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 52:1–3
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.
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