2 Kings 24:18-19

Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 24:19 He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.


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tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”

tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”