Zedekiah
King of Judah · 599–588 BC
Also called Mattaniah
See him on the kings chart · On the timeline
His Reign
- Reigned
- eleven years 2 Kings 24:18
- Began to Reign
- twenty and one years old 2 Kings 24:18
- His Mother
- Hamutal 2 Kings 24:18
- Before Him
- Jehoiachin
In the Sight of the LORD
“he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD” 2 Kings 24:19
Ussher’s Years
- Reigned 599–588 BC
- “Nebuchadnesar, made Mattania, Jechonia his uncle and son to Josia, king in Jeconia his stead”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
Prophets in His Day
- Jeremiah Named in Jeremiah 1:3