According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

It is said that he was poisoned by his Jewish doctor Zedekiah.

* Zedekiah was the last king of the royal house of David to reign in the Holy Land.

Zedekiah tried escaping through a tunnel leading out of the city, but was captured ; his sons were killed in front of him, and then he was blinded.

Zedekiah (; ; Greek: Ζεδεκίας, Zedekías ; ), also written Tzidkiyahu, was the last king of Judah before the destruction of the kingdom by Babylon.

This reckoning makes year 598 / 597 BC, the year Zedekiah was installed by Nebuchadnezzar according to Judah's Tishri-based calendar, to be year " one ," so that the fall of Jerusalem in his eleventh year would have been in year 588 / 587 BC, i. e. in the summer of 587 BC.

Zedekiah was the third son of Josiah, and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he was the brother of Jehoahaz (,,, ).

His original name was Mattanyahu (, Mattanyāhû, " Gift of God "; ; ; traditional English: Mattaniah ), but when Nebuchadnezzar II placed him on the throne as the successor to Jehoiachin, he changed his name to Zedekiah.

Pashur, the son of Malchiah, was another priest, who was sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon ( Jeremiah 21: 1 ).

In Jeremiah 38: 1-6, this Pashur was also one of four men who advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death for his prophecies of doom but who ended up throwing him into a cistern.

After Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be handed over to the Babylonian army, the king ’ s officials, including Pashur the priest, tried to convince King Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death because he was discouraging the soldiers as well as the people.

Zedekiah, who had been placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar ( the Babylonian king ), rebelled, and Nebuchadnezzar, who at the time ( 587 / 586 BCE ) was ruler of a most powerful empire, recaptured the city, killed Zedekiah's descendants in front of him, and plucked out Zedekiah's eyes so that that would be the last thing he ever saw.

After Jeconiah was deposed as king, Jeconiah's uncle, Zedekiah, was allowed by Nebuchadnezzar, to rule Judah.

According to, the city wall was breached in the summer month of Tammuz in the eleventh year of Zedekiah.

Jeconiah was deposed by Nebuchadnezzar, who installed Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's younger brother, in his place.

while Zedekiah was compelled to pay tribute, and continued to be king of the devastated kingdom.

Although a king who is the son of a king need not be anointed, exception was made in the case of Joash, as well as of Solomon and Zedekiah, the succession of each of whom was contested ( Lev.

When Zedekiah made a journey to Babylon to do homage to Nebuchadnezzar, Seraiah had charge of the royal gifts to be presented on that occasion.

Ahijah the Shilonite tore Jeroboam's mantle into twelve pieces, to typify the division of the kingdom of Israel, and Zedekiah made horns of iron to encourage Ahab to engage in war with Ramoth-gilead.

10 And at the return of the year 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.

Egyptian and Babylonian armies fought each other for control of the near east throughout much of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and this encouraged king Zedekiah of Israel to revolt.

* 597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

1 ) The son of Maaseiah, the " second priest " in the reign of Zedekiah, often mentioned in Jeremiah as having been sent from the king to inquire ( Jer.

* March 16, 597 BC — Babylonians capture Jerusalem following a siege, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

Nebuchadnezzar faces off against Zedekiah, the last king of Kingdom of Judah | Judah, who holds a plan of Jerusalem, in a Baroque sculpture | Baroque era depiction in Zwiefalten Abbey, Germany.

The Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II exiled to Babylon Joconiah and Jeconiah's uncle King Zedekiah the last king of Judah and killed Zedekiah there.

For example, during the reign of King Zedekiah, The Lord instructed Jeremiah to make a yoke of the message that the nation would be subject to the king of Babylon and that listening to the false prophets would bring a much worse disaster.

After 52 days of rule, Yishmael, son of Netaniah, a surviving descendant of Zedekiah, assassinated Gedaliah after encouragement by Baalis, the king of Ammon.

He installed in his place a king ( Zedekiah ) of his own choice, and after he had received rich tribute, he sent ( them ) forth to Babylon.

According to the Book of Mormon, Lehi ( ) was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of king Zedekiah ( approximately 600 BC ).

According to the Book of Mormon narrative, the Nephite Mosiah and his followers “ discovered that the people of Zarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon ” ( about 587 B. C.

Zedekiah was the last king of Judah before the kingdom was conquered by Babylon and the people exiled.

Thus, they claim that the throne of David was transplanted by Jeremiah, via a daughter of King Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, to Ireland ( Jeremiah 43: 6 ), along with the stone of Jacob, which was named " The House of God " ( Genesis 28: 22 ), to Scotland and then to England, where the descendants of David, via the daughter of Zedekiah, are sitting on David ’ s throne today over the " House of Israel " who migrated there after having been transplanted by the Assyrians into northern Europe, then into Great Britain.

In 588 BCE Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonian rule, and Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem ( in Tevet 10 of that year ); in the summer of 586 BCE the walls of Jerusalem were penetrated, the city conquered, the ( first ) Holy Temple destroyed, and the people of Judah exiled to Babylonia.

This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoichin, and Zedekiah.

In any event, all the sons of Jehoiachin's successor on the throne of Judah, Zedekiah, were killed by Nebuchadrezzar II after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 586 BCE.

The Babylonians then took Zedekiah into captivity, along with prominent members of Judah.

The author identifies himself as Ezekiel, a contemporary of Jeconiah, and he never mentions, by name, the successor to the Kingdom of Judah: Zedekiah.

" Later, in 591 BC, during the fourth year of his reign, Psamtik II launched an expedition into Palestine " to foment a general Levantine revolt against the Babylonians " that involved, among other, Zedekiah of the Kingdom of Judah.

* A very short account of the persecution of the prophet Jeremiah by King " Jonachim " who seems to correspond to the Biblical kings Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah followed by a short fictionalized account of the fall of Judah ending with the note that Jeremiah preserved the ark and the tablets ( Praep.

According to the Book of Mormon, Mulek () was the only surviving son of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.

Lehi and his family lived in Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Judah under the reign of King Zedekiah.

Ebed-Melech (; ) is mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah as an official at the palace of king Zedekiah of Judah during the Siege of Jerusalem.

All of the kings of Judah lived and died in Judah except for Ahaziah ( who died at Megiddo in Israel ), Jehoahaz ( who died a prisoner in Egypt ) and Jeconiah and Zedekiah who were deported as part of the Babylonian captivity.

Two of their sons, Jehoahaz and Zedekiah also became Kings of Judah.