2 Kings 24:20

20. Zedekiah rebelled In what year is not said, but probably in the eighth year of his reign. Chronicles says, that the king of Babylon “had made him swear by God” that is, had bound him by the most solemn oath (compare Ezekiel 17:13,) to keep the peace by fidelity to the conqueror who had set him on the throne; and in Jeremiah 29:3; Jeremiah 51:59, mention is made of two embassies of Zedekiah to Babylon, with one of which Zedekiah went in person. In Jeremiah 27:3, we find messengers from the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Zidon, consulting with Zedekiah, perhaps concerting a plan to throw off the Babylonian yoke; and in Ezekiel 17:15, Zedekiah is represented as “sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.” Thus he seems to have laid broad plans for his rebellion, and in all this he was encouraged by the false prophets of his time. Jeremiah 28:0.