King Zedekiah of Judah^(A)

^11 (B)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. ¹² He sinned against the Lord and did not listen humbly to the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke the word of the Lord.

The Fall of Jerusalem^(A)

52 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of the Jeremiah who lived in the city of Libnah. ² King Zedekiah sinned against the Lord, just as King Jehoiakim had done. ³ The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight.

Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,