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The Lord (is) righteousness. The Last King of Judah. Not all of the sons of Zedekiah were slain as implied in Jer. 52:10, for one son, Mulek, came to the Western Hemisphere. (Helaman 8:21)
0597 B.C. ˇchanged his name to Zedekiah on becoming king
0587 B.C. ˇNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. (Jer 39:1-7; 52:11)
0589 B.C. ˇdecided to revolt once again against Babylon, on the advice of his own aristocracy, and despite the warnings of the prophet Jeremiah.
20th King of Judah , in Jerusalem, Palestine.0597-0587 B.C
ZEDEKIAH, reigned 11 years, 598/7-587/6BC (2 Ki 24:18; 2 Chr 36:11). He was the last King of Judah. He, and Judah's neighbor-states rebelled against Babylonian vassalage, to which Nebuchadnezzar responded by re-conquering the Middle East. It was at this time that Jerusalem and the First Temple were destroyed by the Babylonians, 587/586BC, and the mass deportation of the Jews to Babylonia took place, called-The Babylonian Captivity. He, by an un-named wife, begot
(a) six sons and three daughters, including the crown-prince Malchijah (Jer 38:6), and his famous sister, Tea or Tamar-Telphi, who married a foreign-prince, identified with an Irish prince.
The execution of the sons of the ex-king Zedekiah by the Babylonian Emperor Nebuchadnezzar II, and the carrying-away of Zedekiah in chains to Babylon where he languished in prison until his death nine years later, caused several claimants of the royal house to come forward presenting their claims; such as, Prince Ishmael [the son of Nathaniah, the son of Elishama, the son of Achbor, the son of Michaiah, the son of Azrikam, who descended in the ninth degree from Prince Shamariah (Semariah), one of the three sons of King Rehoboam (above) by his first wife].
The Jewish prince Gedaliah was appointed-Governor- [not-King-] of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar II, which now became a Babylonian province. He could be called the first Palestinian -Nasi- [= -Prince-]. [note: Gedaliah, was the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Elkanah [rival claimant versus King Ahaz, his cousin], the son of Tabael, the brother of King Jotham.]
Meanwhile, in Babylon, the ex-king [Je]Coniah was still alive, and it was the hope of the Jewish remnant in Judah who escaped the mass deportation of the countrys population into the-Babylonian Captivity- that he would in time be restored to the Judahite throne.
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