Zedekiah
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zedekiah-207-11219881
title:
Zedekiah
text:
Zedekiah was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu. After the siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II deposed king Jeconiah and installed his uncle Mattanyahu instead, changing his name to Zedekiah. The prophet Jeremiah was his counselor, yet he did not heed the prophet and his epitaph is "he did evil in the sight of the Lord". William F. Albright dates the start of Zedekiah's rei
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Biblical figure; last monarch of the Kingdom of Judah
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedekiah
date created:
2002-08-07T13:05:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:00:25Z
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image:
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13
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