Discovery Box2 Kings 24:17-20 
Context24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s 1 uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. 2 His mother 3 was Hamutal, 4 the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 24:19 He did evil in the sight of 5 the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. 6
24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 7 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 tn Heb “his.”
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
3 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
4 tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”
5 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
6 tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
7 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the
