KJV King James Version
Zedekiah [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.
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Jeremiah 52:1
Zedekiah [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.
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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. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
WEB World English Bible
Zedekiah was twenty-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.
ASV American Standard Version
Zedekiah 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.
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, and the name of his mother is Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah [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.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
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בֶּן־H1121 · benson: childעֶשְׂרִ֨יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוְאַחַ֤תH259 · e.chadoneשָׁנָה֙H8141 · sha.nehyearצִדְקִיָּ֣הוּH6667 · tsid.qiy.yahZedekiahבְמָלְכ֔וֹH4427 · ma.lakhto reignוְאַחַ֤תH259 · e.chadoneעֶשְׂרֵה֙H6240 · a.sartenשָׁנָ֔הH8141 · sha.nehyearמָלַ֖ךְH4427 · ma.lakhto reignבִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemוְשֵׁ֣םH8034 · shemnameאִמּ֔וֹH517 · emmotherחֲמוּטַ֥לH2537 · cha.mu.talHamutalבַּֽת־H1323 · batdaughterיִרְמְיָ֖הוּH3414 · yir.me.yahJeremiahמִלִּבְנָֽה׃H3841 · liv.nahLibnah
Cross-references
2 Kings 24:18Zedekiah [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.Joshua 10:29Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:2 Chronicles 36:11Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.Joshua 15:42Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,2 Kings 8:22Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
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