1Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)This narrative begins no higher than the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, though there were two captivities before, one in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the other in the first of Jeconiah; but probably it was drawn up by some of those that were carried away with Zedekiah, as a reproach to themselves for imagining that they should not go into captivity after their brethren, with which hopes they…
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