Jeremiah 52:1–3, King James Version
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Jeremiah 52:1–3
The Appendix Reintroduces Zedekiah and Jerusalem's Fall
The appendix starts the last king again, and the city is already under expulsion
Zedekiah is twenty-one when he begins to reign, and he reigns eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name is Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. He does what is evil in the LORD's sight, according to all Jehoiakim had done. For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
The appendix retells Kings. Maternal lineage is identification, not a cause of the fall, and not a stain on Hamutal. Chronology with Kings and with earlier Jeremiah notices can be compared without forcing every number. Rebellion and 'cast out' sit together as this book's grief over a catastrophe. They do not make the coming atrocities righteous, and they do not make Judah a people whose fate is ethnic. Ordinary residents are not identical with the king.
How this should shape us
Hold a last king responsible without pouring his revolt onto every household in the city. Do not treat a mother's name as destiny, and do not read 'cast out' as God being done with Jews.
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