2 Kings 24:18

_ZEDEKIAH WAS TWENTY AND ONE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED ELEVEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS HAMUTAL, THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF LIBNAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

8-20 Jehoiachin reigned but three months, yet long enough to show that he justly smarted for his fathers' sins, for he trod in their steps. His uncle was intrusted with the government. This Zedekiah was the last of the kings of Judah. Though the judgments of God upon the three kings before him might have warned him, he did that which was evil, like them. When those intrusted with the counsels of a nation act unwisely, and against their true interest, we ought to notice the displeasure of God in it. It is for the sins of a people that God hides from them the things that belong to the public peace. And in fulfilling the secret purposes of his justice, the Lord needs only leave men to the blindness of their own minds, or to the lusts of their own hearts. The gradual approach of Divine judgments affords sinners space for repentance, and believers leisure to prepare for meeting the calamity,...

Ver. 18-20. ZEDEKIAH WAS TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN,.... So that he was but between nine and ten years of age when his father Josiah died; for Jehoahaz reigned three months, Jehoiakim eleven years, and his son three months and ten days: AND HE REIGNED ELEVEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM: AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS HAMUTAL THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF LIBNAH; by which it appears that he was the brother of Jehoahaz by father and mother's side, 2 Kings 23:31. This and the two following verses are expressed in the same words as in Jeremiah 52:1, Jeremiah 52:1, Jeremiah 52:2,...

2. JEHOIACHIN AND ZEDEKIAH: THE BEGINNING OF JUDAH'S CAPTIVITY CHAPTER 24 _ 1. Jehoiakim, Servant of Nebuchadnezzar, and His Death (2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6)_ 2. Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6; 2 Chronicles 36:8) 3. The first deportation to Babylon (2 Kings 24:11) 4. Zedekiah, the last king, and his rebellion (2 Kings 24:17) The foe of Judah, the chosen instrument of the Lord to execute His

2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremiah when not hindered by his nobles. The siege of Jerusalem, which lasted nearly two years (2 Kings 25:1), is more fully related in Jeremiah 37:1 to Jeremiah 39:7. 2 Kings 24:6. and they gave judgement upon him: Zedekiah's offence was intriguing with Egypt and

HAMUTAL. Therefore only half-brother to Jehoiakim, but full brother to Jehoahaz....

2 Kings 24:18 TO 2 KINGS 25:7. Zedekiah king of Judah. He rebels against Nebuchadnezzar. Jerusalem taken. Zedekiah put to death (2 Chronicles 36:11-21; Jeremiah 52:1-11) 18. _Hamutal_ See 2 Kings 23:31....

III. THE REIGN AND REBELLION OF JEHOIAKIM 23:36-24:7 TRANSLATION (36) Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. (37) And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD according to all which his fathers had done. (1) In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal three years; then he turned away and rebelled against him. (2) And the LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans and bands of Arameans and bands of Moabites and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets. (3) Surely on account of the word of the LORD it came on Judah to remove them from before His face for the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had d...

24:18 (c-0) Compare ch. 24.18 to ch. 25.21 with Jeremiah 52:1-27 ....

JEHOIACHIN AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR This chapter recounts the reigns of Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, the invasion of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (who carried into captivity Jehoiachin and numbers of the people), and the reign of Zedekiah....