Queen Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah (r. 640-609 BC), and mother of kings Jehoahaz and Mattaniah (Zedekiah) of Judah.
She was the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Queen Hamutal’s husband, Josiah, was the son of King Amon of Judah (r. 642-640 BC) and Queen Jedidah.
Josiah died in the Battle at Megiddo (c. 609 BC), leading the Kingdom of Judah to become a vassal state of Egypt.
The people of Judah took her son, Jehoahaz (r. 609 BC), and made him king in Jerusalem in place of Josiah.
When Necho II, son of Pharaoh Psamtik I (r. 664-610 BC), heard that the people of Judah had crowned Jehoahaz king, he took him as a prisoner to Egypt for the rest of his life.
Pharaoh Necho II made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim (r. 609-598 BC).
After three years, Jehoiakim rebelled and lost his life in 598 BC. His son, Jehoiachin (r. 597 BC), became the next king of Judah.
King Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605-562 BC), son of Nabopolassar (r. 626-605 BC) and Shuadamqa of Babylon, deposed Jehoiakim’s successor, King Jehoiachin, and installed Jehoiachin’s uncle Mattaniah, changing his name to Zedekiah (r. 597-586 BC).
After 37 years in prison, Jehoiachin was released by King Amel-Marduk (r. 562-560 BC), son of Nebuchadnezzar II.
Josiah’s death marked the beginning of the end for the Kingdom of Judah, which would fall to Babylon in 586 BC.
Centuries later, Jesus would be crucified in Jerusalem (c. 33 AD).
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