Jeremiah 52:1

Jeremiah 52:1-11. Capture of the city

1. Zedekiah was one and twenty years old So 2 Chronicles 36:11, but, if we compare 1 Chronicles 3:15 and 2 Kings 23:31 (2 Chronicles 36:2), we find that, supposing the numbers which we now read there to be correct, Zedekiah should by this time have been thirty-four or thirty-five years of age. An error has somewhere crept in.

his mother's name was Hamutal or Hamital, the other reading of MT. both here, and in 2 Kgs. Zedekiah was thus brother of Jehoahaz but half-brother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 23:36).