2 Kings 24:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

New Living Translation
Then the king of Babylon installed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, as the next king, and he changed Mattaniah’s name to Zedekiah.

English Standard Version
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Berean Study Bible
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

New American Standard Bible
Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

NASB 1995
Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

NASB 1977
Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Amplified Bible
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Christian Standard Bible
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Contemporary English Version
Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah king of Judah and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Good News Translation
Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah king of Judah and changed his name to Zedekiah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king of Babylon made King Jehoiakin's Uncle Mattaniah king in his place and changed Mattaniah's name to Zedekiah.

International Standard Version
The king of Babylon installed Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah as king in his place and then changed his name to Zedekiah.

NET Bible
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in Jehoiachin's place. He renamed him Zedekiah.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

New King James Version
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

King James 2000 Bible
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

New Heart English Bible
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his place, 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.

American King James Version
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

American Standard Version
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

A Faithful Version
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king in his place. And he changed his name to Zedekiah.

Darby Bible Translation
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

English Revised Version
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And the King of Babel made Mattaniah his vncle King in his steade, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the king of Babylon made Mathania his fathers brother king in his steade, and chaunged his name to Zedekia.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And the kynge of Babilon made Matania his vncle kynge in his steade, and turned his name Sedechias.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the king of Babylon causes his father’s brother Mattaniah to reign in his stead, and turns his name to Zedekiah.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king of Babylon causeth Mattaniah his father's brother to reign in his stead, and turneth his name to Zedekiah.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the king of Babel will make Mattaniah his uncle, king in his stead; and he will turn his name to Zedekiah.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he appointed Mattaniah, his uncle, in his place. And he imposed the name Zedekiah upon him.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the King of Babel made Metanya his paternal uncle king in his place, and he named his name Tsedeqia.

Lamsa Bible
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah the king's uncle king in his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the king of Babylon made Batthanias his son king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias.
















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