2 Chronicles 36:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

ZEDEKIAH AND THE FINAL CATASTROPHE (2 Chronicles 36:11-21). (Comp. 2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:21; Jeremiah 39, 52; Jeremiah 3 Esdr. 1:44-55.)

(11) Zedekiah was one and twenty. — So 2 Kings 24:18, adding his mother’s name (Hamutal, who was also mother of Jehoahaz).

Before Jeremian... mouth of the Lord. — Not in Kings. (Comp. Jeremiah 21; Jeremiah 22:1-10, Jeremiah 27, 28, 32-34, 37, 38)

Two special sins of Zedekiah are mentioned in this and the next verse — viz., his disregard of Jeremiah’s counsel, and his perjury to Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Chronicles 36:11

11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.