Judean Kings

[Trussell]

Does anyone know who was the last king of Judea, please?
The nearest that I can get to in my investigations is a zealot named Zadok the Pharisee, but is this correct.

Grateful for any help at all.

[Zen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_ Judea

[mrknowall]

Zedekiah
I found on
http://www.world-destiny.org/musfate5.html

[Trussell]

Thank you very much indeed both of you. The answer that I require is Zedekiah, so thanks particularly to mrknowall.

I had visited the site that zen suggested and could not find the actual last king.

Many thanks again for answering

[Octavius]

Its a matter of spelling really.

Zedekiah was the last King of Judah, a kingdom which ceased to exist in about 586 BC. He was placed on the throne by the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II. His original name was Matanyahu but when Nebuchadnezzar placed him on the throne as the successor to Jehoiachin, he changed his name to Zedekiah. The prophet Jeremiah was his counsellor (2 Kings 24:19, 20; Jeremiah 52:2, 3). The Kingdom of Judea didn't come into existence until around 63 BC. In between this it was the Hasmonean Kingdom.

The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name "Judah" and originally implied the whole territories of the previous Jewish Kingdoms, but by the time of the New Testament it had been limited in scope to the south of the region.

[Trussell]

Thank you for that info - it is amazing what one can learn through these quizzes.
many thanks again,