2 Kings 24:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְאַחַ֤ת שָׁנָה֙ צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וְאַחַ֤ת עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ *חמיטל **חֲמוּטַ֥ל בַּֽת־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ מִלִּבְנָֽה׃

Transliteration

ben-ʿeśrîm and-ʾaḥaṯ šānāh ṣiḏqiyyāhû in-mālḵô and-ʾaḥaṯ ʿeśrēh šānāh mālaḵ in-yərûšālāim and-šēm ʾimmô ḥămûṭal baṯ-yirməyāhû from-liḇnāh.

Grammar Details

*ben*: masculine singular construct noun - son of
*ʿeśrîm*: cardinal number - twenty
*ʾaḥaṯ*: cardinal number - one (feminine)
*šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
*ṣiḏqiyyāhû*: proper noun - Zedekiah
*mālḵô*: Qal infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his becoming king
*ʿeśrēh*: cardinal number - ten
*mālaḵ*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he reigned
*yərûšālāim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
*šēm*: masculine singular construct noun - name of
*ʾimmô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his mother
*ḥămûṭal*: proper noun - Hamutal
*baṯ*: feminine singular construct noun - daughter of
*yirməyāhû*: proper noun - Jeremiah
*liḇnāh*: proper noun - Libnah

Word Meanings

*ben*-*ʿeśrîm* and-*ʾaḥaṯ* *šānāh*: idiomatic expression for age (21 years old)
*mālḵô*: his becoming king/his reign/when he began to reign

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 23:31 : 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jer 52:1-9 : 1 Zedekiah was one and twenty 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. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden;(now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Jer 37:1 : 1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

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