Mattaniah, son of Josiah and brother of Jehoahaz, but thirteen years his junior, adopted a name significant of the blessings promised by Jeremiah to the reign of a king whose name should be “Yahweh, our righteousness” Jeremiah 23:5-8.
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2 Kings 24:17
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.