2 Kings 24:20
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
The verse belongs to the history from Solomon's accession to the Babylonian captivity told in the books of Kings, which form one whole counted as one book in the Hebrew canon, with the division into 1 and 2 Kings coming from the old versions that reckoned Samuel and Kings as a continuous series called the four books of the Kingdoms, and it stands in the third great section of that history, 2 Kings 18-25, covering the remaining kingdom of Judah after the ten tribes had been swept away, following the undivided kingdom under Solomon in 1 Kings 1-11 and the divided kingdom in 1 Kings 12 to 2 Kings 17. It belongs to the account of Babylon's control of Judah in which Jehoiachin was dethroned after three months and his uncle Zedekiah was placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar while Nebuchadnezzar's army occupied the land and Jerusalem was under siege. Through the anger of the Lord events came upon Jerusalem and Judah until he cast them out from his presence, and under that anger and judgment Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. Judah followed the same course of departure from God that had brought disaster on Israel, and captivity came to Judah as well.
Despite reform under Josiah, the downward course of the people after the reigns of Judah's kings continued until Judah fell to Nebuchadnezzar and went into Babylonian captivity. Zedekiah's revolt led to Jerusalem's final siege, its taking by Nebuchadnezzar, its destruction and complete overthrow, the carrying of many into captivity, the final capture of the Jewish nation, and the end of Judah's kingdom. The final destruction of Jerusalem marked in the verse was the third captivity, in 586 B.C. Zedekiah was Judah's last king and the last king of the chosen people in its final period of decline and judgment; Nebuchadnezzar blinded him, took him to Babylon, and he died in captivity, and afterward Judah had no independent kingdom but remained subject to the world powers that ruled it.
Zedekiah's overthrow connects with the prophecy that the crown would be removed until the one with the rightful claim came, which points to Christ's future kingship when he comes in glory and sits on his throne. Zedekiah rebelled against Babylon's authority despite receiving the same warning to submit that had been sent to the surrounding kings. Zedekiah was false to his trust as king, showing that the importance of kingship did not make him holy.