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'''Zedekiah''' or '''Tzidkiyahu''' ([[Hebrew]] '''צִדְקִיָּהוּ''', justice of [[YHWH]]<ref name=Zedekiah>Mike Campbell, "[http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=zedekiah Entry for Zedekiah]," ''[http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]'', 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007</ref>) or '''Mattaniah''' or '''Mattanyahu''' ([[Hebrew]] '''מַתַּנְיָהוּ''', gift of [[YHWH]]<ref name=Mattaniah>Mike Campbell, "[http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=mattaniah Entry for Mattaniah]," ''[http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]'', 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007</ref>) (620-r. 599-588 BC according to [[James Ussher|Ussher]]<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pghh. 806-7, 809-12, 814-6, 818, 824,831-2, 834-8, 841-3, 847-9</ref> or 618-r. 597-586 BC according to [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]]<ref name=Wood>Leon J. Wood, ''A Survey of Israel's History'', rev. ed. David O'Brien, Grand Rapids, MI: Academie Books, 1986 (ISBN 031034770X), pp. 318-20</ref>), was the nineteenth, and last, king of the [[Southern Kingdom]] of [[Israel]].<ref name=HSI>Anonymous, "[http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/biblediscovery/zedekiah.asp Entry for Zedekiah]," ''Holy Spirit Interactive''. Retrieved April 16, 2007.</ref> He is best known for losing [[Jerusalem]] to [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], who ordered his chief-of-staff to burn it to the ground.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=25|verses=8-10|version=NASB}}</ref> But he is also known for the most flagrant physical and personal abuse of a [[prophet]], short of ordering that prophet's execution, that any king of the [[Southern Kingdom|Southern]] or [[Northern Kingdom]] ever committed.

'''Zedekiah''' or '''Tzidkiyahu''' ([[Hebrew]] '''צִדְקִיָּהוּ''', justice of [[YHWH]]<ref name=Zedekiah>Mike Campbell, "[http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=zedekiah Entry for Zedekiah]," ''[http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]'', 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007</ref>) or '''Mattaniah''' or '''Mattanyahu''' ([[Hebrew]] '''מַתַּנְיָהוּ''', gift of [[YHWH]]<ref name=Mattaniah>Mike Campbell, "[http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=mattaniah Entry for Mattaniah]," ''[http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]'', 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007</ref>) (620-r. 599-588 BC according to [[James Ussher|Ussher]]<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pghh. 806-7, 809-12, 814-6, 818, 824,831-2, 834-8, 841-3, 847-9</ref> or 618-r. 597-586 BC according to [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]]<ref name=Wood>Leon J. Wood, ''A Survey of Israel's History'', rev. ed. [[David O'Brien]], Grand Rapids, MI: Academie Books, 1986 (ISBN 031034770X), pp. 318-20</ref>), was the nineteenth, and last, king of the [[Southern Kingdom]] of [[Israel]].<ref name=HSI>Anonymous, "[http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/biblediscovery/zedekiah.asp Entry for Zedekiah]," ''Holy Spirit Interactive''. Retrieved April 16, 2007.</ref> He is best known for losing [[Jerusalem]] to [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], who ordered his chief-of-staff to burn it to the ground.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=25|verses=8-10|version=NASB}}</ref> But he is also known for the most flagrant physical and personal abuse of a [[prophet]], short of ordering that prophet's execution, that any king of the [[Southern Kingdom|Southern]] or [[Northern Kingdom]] ever committed.

== Early Life and Family ==

== Early Life and Family ==