Strong H6667H6667Hצִדְקִיָּ֫הוּ

Zedekiah

One of the 6 senses of Strong H6667

Transliteration
tsidqîyâh tsidqîyâhû
Pronunciation
{tsid-kee-yaw'} tsid-kee-yaw'-hoo
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.24.17;
son of: Josiah (H2977) and Hamutal (H2537);
brother of: Jehoahaz (H3059H);
half-brother of: Jehoiakim (H3079) and Shallum (H7967J); also called Mattaniah at 2Ki.24.17;
Also named: mat.tan.yah (מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ "Mattaniah" H4983Q)

Meaning of the name

Zedekiah = "Jehovah is righteous"

General definition

From H6664 and H3050; right of Jah;
{Tsidkijah} the name of six Israelites: - {Zedekiah} Zidkijah.

In the biblical story

Zedekiah

Last king of Judah before the Babylonian exile

Zedekiah, originally named Mattaniah, was the last king of Judah before the Babylonian exile (2Ki.24.17,18,20; 25.2,7,7; 1Ch.3.15; 2Ch.36.10,11; Jer.1.3; 21.1,3,7; 24.8; 27.3,12; 28.1; 29.3; 32.1,3,4,5; 34.2,4,6,8,21; 37.1,3,17,18,21; 38.5,14,15,16,17,19,24; 39.1,2,4,5,6,7; 44.30; 49.34; 51.59; 52.1,3,5,8,10,11; 2Ki.24.17).

In the Bible

Strong H6667H appears in 53 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • zedekiah51
  • make1
  • s1

First verses

  1. 2 Kings 24:17
    And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
  2. 2 Kings 24:18
    Zedekiah 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.
  3. 2 Kings 24:20
    For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  4. 2 Kings 25:2
    And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
  5. 2 Kings 25:7
    And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
  6. 1 Chronicles 3:15
    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
  7. 2 Chronicles 36:10
    And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  8. 2 Chronicles 36:11
    Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
  9. Jeremiah 1:3
    It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
  10. Jeremiah 21:1
    The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
  11. Jeremiah 21:3
    Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
  12. Jeremiah 21:7
    And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
  13. Jeremiah 24:8
    And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
  14. Jeremiah 27:3
    And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
  15. Jeremiah 27:12
    I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
  16. Jeremiah 28:1
    And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
  17. Jeremiah 29:3
    By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
  18. Jeremiah 32:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
  19. Jeremiah 32:3
    For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
  20. Jeremiah 32:4
    And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
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