ZEDEKIAH

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• 1 Kings 22:11

  Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

• 1 Kings 22:24

  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

• 2 Kings 24:17

  The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 24:18

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 2 Kings 24:19

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

• 2 Kings 24:20

  For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:1

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

• 2 Kings 25:2

  So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 2 Kings 25:4

  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

• 2 Kings 25:5

  But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

• 2 Kings 25:6

  Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

• 2 Kings 25:7

  They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:8

  Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 25:9

  He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 3:15

  The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.

• 1 Chronicles 3:16

  The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.

• 2 Chronicles 18:10

  Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

• 2 Chronicles 18:23

  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:8

  So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:9

  They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 24:10

  All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

• 2 Chronicles 27:12
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• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:5

  He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 36:10

  At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:12

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 36:17

  Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

• 2 Chronicles 36:18

  All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 36:20

  He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

• 2 Chronicles 37:7
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• 2 Chronicles 37:17
• 2 Chronicles 38:14
• 2 Chronicles 38:15
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• Jeremiah 1:3

  It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

• Jeremiah 21:1

  The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

• Jeremiah 21:2

  “Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”

• Jeremiah 21:3

  Then Jeremiah said to them, “Tell Zedekiah:

• Jeremiah 29:21

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes.

• Jeremiah 29:22

  A curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’

• Jeremiah 29:23

  because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 32:1

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

• Jeremiah 32:2

  Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

• Jeremiah 32:3

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

• Jeremiah 36:12

  he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

• Jeremiah 37:1

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

• Jeremiah 37:2

  But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 37:3

  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 Yahweh our God for us.”

• Jeremiah 37:15

  The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

• Jeremiah 37:16

  When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

• Jeremiah 37:17

  then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He said also, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

• Jeremiah 37:18

  Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

• Jeremiah 37:19

  Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’

• Jeremiah 37:20

  Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

• Jeremiah 37:21

  Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 38:5

  Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

• Jeremiah 38:6

  Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

• Jeremiah 38:7

  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

• Jeremiah 38:8

  Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

• Jeremiah 38:9

  “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

• Jeremiah 38:10

  Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”

• Jeremiah 38:11

  So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 38:12

  Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.

• Jeremiah 38:13

  So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 38:14

  Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

• Jeremiah 38:15

  Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

• Jeremiah 38:16

  So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

• Jeremiah 38:17

  Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

• Jeremiah 38:18

  But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’”

• Jeremiah 38:19

  Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

• Jeremiah 38:20

  But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul shall live.

• Jeremiah 38:21

  But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

• Jeremiah 38:22

  ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

• Jeremiah 38:23

  They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”

• Jeremiah 38:24

  Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.

• Jeremiah 38:25

  But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you;’

• Jeremiah 38:26

  then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

• Jeremiah 38:27

  Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

• Jeremiah 38:28

  So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

• Jeremiah 39:1

  When Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

• Jeremiah 39:2

  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

• Jeremiah 39:3

  all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 39:4

  When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

• Jeremiah 39:5

  But the army of the Chaldeans 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; and he gave judgment on him.

• Jeremiah 39:6

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

• Jeremiah 39:7

  Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 39:8

  The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 39:9

  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.

• Jeremiah 39:10

  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

• Jeremiah 51:59

  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

• Jeremiah 52:2

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

• Jeremiah 52:3

  For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 52:4

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

• Jeremiah 52:5

  So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• Jeremiah 52:6

  In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Jeremiah 52:7

  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went 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 against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,

• Jeremiah 52:8

  but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

• Jeremiah 52:9

  Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.

• Jeremiah 52:10

  The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

• Jeremiah 52:11

  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

• Jeremiah 52:12

  Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 52:13

  He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

• Jeremiah 52:14

  All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

• Jeremiah 52:15

  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

• Jeremiah 52:16

  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

• Jeremiah 52:17

  The Chaldeans broke the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their brass to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 52:18

  They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

• Jeremiah 52:19

  The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

• Jeremiah 52:20

  They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

• Jeremiah 52:21

  As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.

• Jeremiah 52:22

  A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

• Jeremiah 52:23

  There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

• Jeremiah 52:24

  The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

• Jeremiah 52:25

  and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.

• Jeremiah 52:26

  Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

• Jeremiah 52:27

  The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

• Jeremiah 52:28

  This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;

• Jeremiah 52:29

  in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

• Jeremiah 52:30

  in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

• Ezekiel 12:10

  “Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.”’

• Ezekiel 12:11

  “Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

• Ezekiel 12:12

  “‘The prince who is among them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

• Ezekiel 12:13

  I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

• Ezekiel 12:14

  I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.

• Ezekiel 12:15

  “‘They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

• Ezekiel 12:16

  But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

• Ezekiel 17:11

  Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Ezekiel 17:12

  “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

• Ezekiel 17:13

  He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

• Ezekiel 17:14

  that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

• Ezekiel 17:15

  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

• Ezekiel 17:16

  “‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

• Ezekiel 17:17

  Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

• Ezekiel 17:18

  For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

• Ezekiel 17:19

  “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.

• Ezekiel 17:20

  I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

• Ezekiel 17:21

  All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’