2Ch 36:10 | NETfull | STEP | At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord ’s temple. In his place he made his relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:10

10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ^{▼▼ Heb “sent and brought him.”} to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ^{▼▼ Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).} Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.