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.

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.

Nebuchadrezzar II | Nebuchadnezzar faces off against Zedekiah, who holds a plan of Jerusalem, in this Baroque sculpture | Baroque-era depiction in Zwiefalten Abbey in Germany

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.

Some who maintain the 586 date therefore maintain that in this one instance, Ezekiel, without explicitly saying so, switched to the regnal years of Zedekiah, although Ezekiel apparently regarded Jeconiah as the rightful ruler and never names Zedekiah in his writing.

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

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.

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

Shallum was succeeded by Eliakim, under the name Jehoiakim, who was succeeded by his own son Jeconiah ; then Jeconiah was succeeded to the throne by Mattanyahu, under the name Zedekiah.

* 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.

It is not clear whether the prophecy represents Micaiah's own belief or a depiction of the beliefs of Ahab's prophets such as Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah, who struck him after the prophecy ( 1 Kings 22: 24 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Zedekiah and his followers attempted to escape, making their way out of the city, but were captured on the plains of Jericho, and were taken to Riblah.

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.

He married Hannah Turner and began the construction of a large manor house on land given him by his father, Zedekiah Stone.

It is also possible that it was meant as a slur on Ahab's prophets, such as Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah.

Les Juives is the moving story of the barbarous vengeance of Nebuchadnezzar on the Jewish king Zedekiah and his children.

In Mirsky ’ s view, the many similarities of the Tanya Rabbati to Shibbolei ha-Leket come from the fact that both Jehiel and Zedekiah wrote their works based on the teachings of Judah ben Benjamin Anav, Jehiel ’ s uncle.

In that case, the year that Zedekiah came to the throne would be his zeroth year ; his first full year would be 597 / 596 BC, and his eleventh year, the year Jerusalem fell, would be 587 / 586 BCE.

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

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

Zedekiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BC at the age of twenty-one.

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

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

Nephi and his family lived in Jerusalem, circa 600 BC, during the reign of King Zedekiah, until Lehi was commanded by God to take his family and flee into the wilderness.

) The Book of Mormon relates that the surviving seed of Zedekiah “ journeyed in the wilderness, and were brought by the hand of the Lord across the great waters ” to the Western Hemisphere.

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

Hebrew devotion to God is often indicated by adding an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton as a suffix ; the most common abbreviations used by Jews are יה-yāh /- iyyāh and יהו-yāhû /- iyyāhû /- ayhû, forming names such as יש ׁ עיהו Yəšaʻªyāhû ( Isaiah ), צדקיהו Ṣiḏqiyyāhû ( Zedekiah ) and ש ׂ ריה Śərāyāh ( Seraiah ).

According to the Book of Mormon, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon during the reign of Zedekiah, all of the sons of Zedekiah were killed except Mulek .< Ref > Helaman 8: 21 Along with " as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord ," Mulek escaped into the wilderness and traveled " across the great waters " to the Americas, founding a new nation.

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.

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.

Zedekiah is chained and brought before Nebuchadnezzar II | Nebuchadnezzar, from Petrus Comestor's " Bible Historiale ," 1670.

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.