2 Kings 24:17-18

24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.


tn Heb “his.”

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tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”