2Ki 24:17-20 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 17 Made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead - He was the son of Josiah, and brother to Jehoiakim. Changed his name to Zedekiah

2 Kings 24:17-20

Verse 17

Made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead - He was the son of Josiah, and brother to Jehoiakim.

Changed his name to Zedekiah - See the note on 2Kgs 23:34. Verse 19

He did - evil - How astonishing is this! not one of them takes warning by the judgments of God, which fell on their sinful predecessors. Verse 20

Zedekiah rebelled - This was in the eighth year of his reign: and he is strongly reproved for having violated the oath he took to the king of Babylon: see 2Chr 36:13. This was the filling up of the measure of iniquity; and now the wrath of God descends upon this devoted king, city, and people, to the uttermost. See the catastrophe in the next chapter.