2 Kings 24:19
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New International Version (©2011)
He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD's sight just as Jehoiakim had done.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Zedekiah practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, just as Jehoiakim had done,

NET Bible (©2006)
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Zedekiah did what the LORD considered evil, as Jehoiakim had done.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

American King James Version
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

American Standard Version
And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

Darby Bible Translation
And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

English Revised Version
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

World English Bible
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Young's Literal Translation
and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah according to all that Jehoiakim did,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:8-20 Jehoiachin reigned but three months, yet long enough to show that he justly smarted for his fathers' sins, for he trod in their steps. His uncle was intrusted with the government. This Zedekiah was the last of the kings of Judah. Though the judgments of God upon the three kings before him might have warned him, he did that which was evil, like them. When those intrusted with the counsels of a nation act unwisely, and against their true interest, we ought to notice the displeasure of God in it. It is for the sins of a people that God hides from them the things that belong to the public peace. And in fulfilling the secret purposes of his justice, the Lord needs only leave men to the blindness of their own minds, or to the lusts of their own hearts. The gradual approach of Divine judgments affords sinners space for repentance, and believers leisure to prepare for meeting the calamity, while it shows the obstinacy of those who will not forsake their sins.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. Keil says, "His attitude towards the Lord exactly resembled that of his brother Jehoiakim, except that Zedekiah does not appear to have possessed so much energy for that which was evil." He allowed the people to continue their "pollutions" and" abominations" (2 Chronicles 36:14). He let the "princes" have their way, and do whatever they pleased (Jeremiah 38:5), contenting himself with sometimes outwitting them, and counteracting their proceeding (Jeremiah 38:14-28). He fell into the old error of "putting trust in Egypt" (Jeremiah 37:5-7), and made an alliance with Apries (Pharaoh-Hophra), which was an act of rebellion, at once against God and against his Babylonian suzerain. He was, upon the whole, rather weak than wicked; but his weakness was as ruinous to his country as active wickedness would have been.

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Zedekiah King of Judah
18Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 23:37 And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his predecessors had done.
Jeremiah 37:2 Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 52:2 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.