24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Hamutal, 3 the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 24:19 He did evil in the sight of 4 the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. 5
24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 6 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
52:1 7 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem 8 for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal 9 daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 52:2 He did what displeased the Lord 10 just as Jehoiakim had done.
52:3 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. 11 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
3 tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”
4 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
5 tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
6 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the
7 sn This final chapter does not mention Jeremiah, but its description of the downfall of Jerusalem and exile of the people validates the prophet’s ministry.
8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
9 tn Some textual witnesses support the Kethib (consonantal text) in reading “Hamital.”
10 tn Heb “what was evil in the eyes of the
11 tn Heb “Surely (or “for”) because of the anger of the