6 others in the registry answer to the name Zedekiah. Every Zedekiah in the Bible
- verses
- 53
- first named
- 2 Kings 24:17
- last named
- Jeremiah 52:11
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Zedekiah?
Zedekiah, originally named Mattaniah, was the last king of Judah before the Babylonian exile. He was the son of Josiah and the uncle of Jehoiachin. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, appointed him as a vassal king after deporting Jehoiachin. Zedekiah reigned for 11 years, but he did evil in the sight of the Lord. Despite the warnings of the prophet Jeremiah, Zedekiah rebelled against Babylon, leading to the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. During the siege, Zedekiah sought counsel from Jeremiah but did not heed his advice to surrender. When the city fell, Zedekiah attempted to flee but was captured. His sons were killed before his eyes, and then he was blinded and taken to Babylon in chains. Zedekiah's reign ended in tragedy, marking the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the beginning of the Babylonian exile.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 18 are drawn. All 18 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Zedekiah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
53 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (5), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2) and Jeremiah (45).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 53, across 4 books. The name is written 55 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 2 Kings 24Zedekiah reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years, did evil, and rebelled against the king of Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25Zedekiah fled Jerusalem by night, was captured in the plains of Jericho, judged at Riblah, and carried blinded to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36Zedekiah reigned over Judah and Jerusalem, rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and refused to turn to the LORD.
- Jeremiah 1Zedekiah was king of Judah when Jerusalem’s people went into exile.
- Jeremiah 21Zedekiah sent Pashhur and Zephaniah to Jeremiah while Nebuchadnezzar was waging war against them.
- Jeremiah 24Zedekiah is counted among the bad figs, along with his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 27Zedekiah reigned in Judah and received Jeremiah’s warning to put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 29Zedekiah sent Elasah and Gemariah to Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.
7 more chapters, from Jeremiah 32 to Jeremiah 52
- Jeremiah 32Zedekiah imprisoned Jeremiah and was told that he would be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 34Zedekiah made a covenant to proclaim liberty, received Jeremiah’s warning, and later stood under the promise of capture and exile.
- Jeremiah 37Zedekiah sent messengers to Jeremiah, questioned him privately, and ordered that he be given a daily loaf of bread.
- Jeremiah 38Zedekiah handed Jeremiah over to the officials, later sent men to pull him from the cistern, and then privately sought his counsel while arranging a cover story.
- Jeremiah 39Zedekiah fled Jerusalem by night, was captured in the plains of Jericho, and was taken in chains to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 44Zedekiah is recalled as having been delivered into Nebuchadnezzar’s hand.
- Jeremiah 52Zedekiah reigned in Jerusalem, rebelled against Babylon, fled when the city was breached, and was captured, blinded, shackled, and taken to Babylon.
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