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LIFE AND REIGN His original name was Mattaniah or '''Matanyáhu''' ('''מַתַּנְיָהוּ''' "Gift of/is '' 52:2, 3). He ascended the throne at the age of twenty-one. The kingdom was at that time tributary to '' 4:4, 5, 10). In the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, Nebuchadnezzar succeeded in conquering Jerusalem. The city was plundered and reduced to ruins. Zedekiah and his followers attempted to escape, making their way out of the city, but were captured on the plains of Jericho , and were taken to Riblah . There, after seeing his own children put to death, his own eyes were put out, and, being loaded with chains, he was carried captive ('' 12:12), where he remained a prisoner, how long is unknown, to the day of his death. After the fall of Jerusalem, , with a Chaldean guard stationed at Mizpah , were left to rule over Judah (''2 Kings'' 25:22, 24; Jer. 40:1, 2, 5, 6). Sources BOOK OF MORMON According to the Book Of Mormon , King Zedekiah's reign began in (or immediately prior to) 600 BC , and Zedekiah's surviving son Mulek escaped death and travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas , where he founded a nation that later merged with the Nephite s.
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