KJV King James Version
Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
WEB World English Bible
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
ASV American Standard Version
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A son of twenty and one years is Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 36
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] 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 unto the LORD God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
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בֶּן־H1121 · benson: childעֶשְׂרִ֧יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוְאַחַ֛תH259 · e.chadoneשָׁנָ֖הH8141 · sha.nehyearצִדְקִיָּ֣הוּH6667 · tsid.qiy.yahZedekiahבְמָלְכ֑וֹH4427 · ma.lakhto reignוְאַחַ֤תH259 · e.chadoneעֶשְׂרֵה֙H6240 · a.sartenשָׁנָ֔הH8141 · sha.nehyearמָלַ֖ךְH4427 · ma.lakhto reignבִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃H3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalem
Cross-references
2 Kings 24:18-20Zedekiah [was] twenty and 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.Jeremiah 52:1-3Zedekiah [was] one and twenty 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.Jeremiah 27:1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,Jeremiah 28:1And it came to pass the same year, in 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, which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
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