2-kings 24:17
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
Webster's Revision
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
World English Bible
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Clarke's 2-kings 24:17 Bible Commentary
Made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead - He was the son of Josiah, and brother to Jehoiakim.
Changed his name to Zedekiah - See the note on 2 Kings 23:34.
Barnes's 2-kings 24:17 Bible Commentary
Mattaniah, son of Josiah and brother of Jehoahaz, but thirteen years his junior, adopted a name significant of the blessings promised by Jeremiah to the reign of a king whose name should be "Yahweh, our righteousness" Jeremiah 23:5-8.
Wesley's 2-kings 24:17 Bible Commentary
24:17 Zedekiah - That he might admonish him of (what this name signifies) the justice of God, which had so severely punished Jehoiakim for his rebellion; and would no less certainly overtake him, if he should be guilty of the same perfidiousness.