Midvash

צִדְקִיָּהTsidqîyâh

proper name, masculine: is righteousness

Pronunciation: tsid-kee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6667

Meanings

1. last king of Judah (2 Kings 24:17; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 24:20)

2. false prophets

a. under Ahab (1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:10; 2 Chronicles 18:23)

b. Jeremiah's time (Jeremiah 29:21; Jeremiah 29:22)

3. prince, Jeremiah's time (Jeremiah 36:12)

4. priest, Nehemiah's time (Nehemiah 10:2)

5. son of Jehoiachin, but probably gloss (1 Chronicles 3:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 63 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 22:11 One of them, Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, made some iron horns and proclaimed, “This is what the Lord says: With these horns you will gore the Arameans to death!”
  • 1 Kings 22:24 Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah walked up to Micaiah and slapped him across the face. “Since when did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?” he demanded.
  • 2 Kings 24:17 Then the king of Babylon installed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, as the next king, and he changed Mattaniah’s name to Zedekiah.
  • 2 Kings 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
  • 2 Kings 24:20 These things happened because of the Lord’s anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them into exile. The Fall of Jerusalem Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • 2 Kings 25:2 Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.
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