2 Kings 24:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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  • Jer 37:1 : 1 And King Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned instead of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.
  • 2 Kgs 23:34 : 34 And Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt and died there.
  • 2 Chr 36:4 : 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz, his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 36:10-13 : 10 And when the year was expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem. 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.
  • 1 Chr 3:15-16 : 15 And the sons of Josiah were: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
  • Jer 52:1 : 1 Zedekiah was twenty-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.

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  • Jer 37:1
    82%

    1 And King Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned instead of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18 Zedekiah was twenty-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.

    19 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

    20 For because of the anger of the LORD, it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

  • 2 Chr 36:10-12
    3 verses
    79%

    10 And when the year was expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

    11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

    12 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.

  • Jer 52:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 Zedekiah was twenty-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.

    2 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

    3 For through the anger of the LORD it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

  • 1 Chr 3:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 And the sons of Josiah were: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

    16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

  • 2 Chr 36:4
    74%

    4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz, his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 24:6
    73%

    6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 25:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah; and they pronounced judgment on him.

    7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  • Jer 39:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

    6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.

    7 Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 24:12
    72%

    12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers, and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

  • Jer 34:6
    72%

    6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

  • 2 Kgs 23:36
    72%

    36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:1
    72%

    1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

  • 2 Kgs 23:34
    71%

    34 And Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt and died there.

  • Jer 52:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment upon him.

    10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed 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 until the day of his death.

  • Jer 21:1
    71%

    1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

  • Jer 32:1
    70%

    1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

  • Jer 21:3
    70%

    3 Then Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah:

  • Jer 32:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

    4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and his eyes shall see his eyes;

  • Matt 1:11
    70%

    11 And Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

  • Jer 29:22
    69%

    22 And because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, 'The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;'

  • Jer 37:17
    69%

    17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out; and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, 'Is there any word from the LORD?' And Jeremiah said, 'There is, for, said he, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.'

  • 2 Kgs 24:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

    9 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

  • Jer 34:2
    69%

    2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  • Jer 34:8
    69%

    8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them:

  • 2 Chr 36:1
    69%

    1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 36:6
    69%

    6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in chains, to carry him to Babylon.

  • Jer 21:7
    68%

    7 And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their lives, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.

  • 2 Chr 36:8
    68%

    8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

  • Jer 38:5
    68%

    5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not anyone who can do anything against you.

  • 2 Kgs 25:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it; and they built siege works all around it.

    2 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

  • Jer 37:3
    68%

    3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 'Pray now to the LORD our God for us.'

  • Jer 28:1
    68%

    1 And it came to pass in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

  • Jer 27:20
    68%

    20 Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

  • Jer 27:3
    68%

    3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah, king of Judah;