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Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure

… Lehi and Sariah left Jerusalem early in King Zedekiah's reign. C.C.A. Christensen, Out in the Wilderness , … pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah.” This note raises several questions. … of time between the call of Lehi in the first year of Zedekiah’s reign and the moment when Lehi and his family left …

The Imprisonment of Jeremiah in Its Historical Context

… (2 Kings 24:11–16; 2 Chronicles 36:9–10). [31] In the end, Zedekiah was placed on the throne at age twenty-one by … an oath of allegiance to Babylon (2 Kings 24:17–18). Zedekiah’s Pressures Zedekiah came to the throne at a time of …

The Restoration of Plain and Precious Parts: The Book of Helaman

… These people had left “Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah, king of Judah, was carried away captive into … of Jerusalem (Omni 1:15). Among these people was one of Zedekiah’s sons named Mulek (Hel 8:21). Thus, the Nephites …

Ezekiel: Prophet of Judgment, Prophet of Promise

… pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father Lehi, having dwelt at … therefore of interest to us. During the next ten years, Zedekiah, who was appointed to replace Jehoiachin as the … the sons of Zedekiah as Zedekiah watched. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, blinding him, and carried him away captive …

The Fall of Judah and the Exile

… 640–609 Jehoahaz 609 Jehoiakim 609–598 Jehoiachin 598–597 Zedekiah 597–586 Babylon and Judah, 597 BCE The alliances of … Babylon (the first deportation), while a new vassal king, Zedekiah (Jehoiachin’s uncle, Jehoiakim’s brother), was … (Jeconiah) prisoner. He installed in his place a king (Zedekiah) of his own choice, and after he had received rich …

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

… left a Babylonian appointee in charge, Jehoiachin’s uncle Zedekiah. Jerusalem was not an easy victory. The siege took … homeland. But the elite of Jerusalem were not finished. Zedekiah eventually turned, and Jerusalem began preparing for … his own justice. The biblical record states that he killed Zedekiah’s sons and all the nobles, then put out Zedekiah’s …

Two Shots in the Dark

… on the Egyptian manner of keeping records in the days of Zedekiah. The Lachish Letters were written on potsherds, he … king at the time. The scribe of Jeremiah 27:1–3 says that Zedekiah was not yet king, but scholars now insist that he was wrong and that Zedekiah was ruling earlier than the Masoretic text says he …

The Calling of a Prophet

… The commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah. The engaging story of Lehi’s call is familiar to … came in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, [4] king of Judah, in 597/ 96 B.C. This was … near the day when the Israelites were celebrating Zedekiah’s enthronement, or at least “in the commencement” of …

Cutting Covenants

… Jehovah and Abram (about 1900 BC), and the second involves Zedekiah and the people of Judah (about 590 BC). In both of … cutting in Genesis 15 can be viewed as a Temple text. Zedekiah and the People of Judah The second Old Testament … example of covenant cutting we will consider concerns Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his people during the ministry …

Symbolic Action as Prophecy in the Old Testament

… in making nonverbal prophecies. Two false prophets, [4] Zedekiah and Hananiah, attempted to imitate the actions of … created dramatizations that did not originate with God. Zedekiah made horns of iron and then prophesied that kings … were fulfilled. Very little is known of the end of Zedekiah (see 1 Kings 22:24–25). The fate of Hananiah, …