Zedekiah
In the Cave of Treasures Zedekiah was twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamtal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. He did evil before the Lord and rebelled against the king of Babel. Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem until Zedekiah's eleventh year. The Chaldeans captured him on the plain of Jericho, slew his sons before his eyes, blinded him, and bound him in chains. Hiram reigned until the days of Zedekiah.
He is a different person from Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah, the false prophet named in the Ascension of Isaiah.
Biography
- Occupation
- Last king of Judah
- Era
- Kingdom of Judah
Key Chapters
Key Passages
Zedekiah in Cave of Treasures 55
The Cave of Treasures 55:11
And the Queen of Sheba went to hold converse with him. And Solomon loved Hiram, king of Tyre, greatly. And Hiram reigned...
11nd the Queen of Sheba went to hold converse with him. And Solomon loved Hiram, king of Tyre, greatly. And Hiram reigned in Tyre five hundred years, from the days of the kingdom of David to the [days of] the kingdom of Zedekiah and of all the kings of the children of Israel. And at length he forgot that he was a man, and he blasphemed and said, “I am God, and I sit upon the throne of God in the middle of the sea.” And Nebuchadnezzar the king killed him.
Zedekiah in Cave of Treasures 62
The Cave of Treasures 62:15
And he brought out from there all the treasure of the house of the Lord, and the treasure of the king’s house, and he ca...
15nd he brought out from there all the treasure of the house of the Lord, and the treasure of the king’s house, and he carried off into captivity to Babel all [the people of] Jerusalem, and Jehoiachin, and his mother, and his wives, and his nobles; and the king brought captive to Babel all the men who had made war. And the king of Babel made Methanya, the uncle [of Jehoiachin] king in his stead, and he called his name “Zedekiah.”’
Zedekiah in Cave of Treasures 63
The Cave of Treasures 63:1
Zedekiah was twenty years old when [he began] to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mo...
1edekiah was twenty years old when [he began] to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamtal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. And he did that which was evil before the Lord, even as did Jehoiakim, and the wrath of the Lord was (i.e. fell upon) Jerusalem.
Did You Know?
Zedekiah was first named Methanya, and the king of Babel renamed him when he made him king in place of his nephew Jehoiachin.
The book gives his mother as Hamtal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and rebelled against the king of Babel.
The Chaldeans caught him on the plain of Jericho after all his soldiers had been driven away from him.
His sons were killed before his eyes, and he was then blinded, chained and carried to Babel.