Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah — Zedekiah, young at twenty-one, reigns eleven years under Babylonian vassalage. The extended tenure—eleven years—provides opportunity for either reform or continuation of apostasy, yet the narrative indicates his fundamental weakness as a ruler unable to resist either Babylonian demands or internal pressure.

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