International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Sedekias

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Sedekias


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sed-ḗ-kı̄´as:

(1) (Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Σεδεκίας, Sedekı́as; the King James Version Zedechias): 1 Esdras 1:46 (44) = Zedekiah king of Judah; also in Baruch 1:8 where the King James Version reads “Sedecias.”

(2) In Baruch 1:1 (the King James Version “Sedecias”), an ancestor of Baruch, “the son of Asadias,” sometimes (but incorrectly) identified with the false prophet “Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah” ().