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The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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Verse 17. Uncle, the third son of Josias, who was placed on the throne. Bible.—The eldest, ( Menochius.) called Johanan, seems to have died in his youth. Calmet.—Sedecias means, “the justice of God,” ( Tirinus.) as Nabuchodonosor had adjured him, or made him swear by God; (2 Chronicles 36:15. Bible.) and thus insinuated, that, if he proved faithless, he should feel the effects of God’s justice, as it happened. Tirinus.
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