1. Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of the Jeremiah who lived in the city of Libnah.
2. King Zedekiah sinned against the Lord, just as King Jehoiakim had done.
3. The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight.Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,
21-22. The two columns were identical: each one was eight metres high and 5.3 metres round. They were hollow, and the metal was 75 millimetres thick. On top of each column was a bronze capital 2.2 metres high, and all round it was a grating decorated with pomegranates, all of which was also made of bronze.