310 : Basic English : Jeremiah 52; Lamentations 1; 1 Timothy 6 ) 1. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
3. And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.
4. And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.
5. So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
; AB church Lausanne )
