Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

¹⁸ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother^[a] was Hamutal,^[b] the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. ¹⁹ He did evil in the sight of^[c] the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.^[d]