Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Sedecias. This is purely historical, taken from 4 Kennicott. 24:18, and so forth Many doubt with reason the Jeremias inserted it, as he could not well be alive at the time when Joakim was honoured. verse 31. If he had written both this and the Book of Kings, the variations which we here discover would not be seen. It seems, therefore, that Esdras or some other has inserted it, to explain the fall of Jerusalem and the lamentations; as a similar addition has been made to Isaias. Calmet. 36. and so forth See Grot. Calmet.—The history occurs more at large, Par. ult. Worthington.