(Σεδεκίας ), the Graecized form of the Hebrew name Zedekiah (q.v.), applied in the Apocrypha to two men 1. A person mentioned (Baruch 1, 1) as the father of Maaseiah, himself the grandfather of Baruch, and apparently identical with the false prophet Zedekiah in Jeremiah 29:21-22; Jeremiah 2. The "son of Josiah, king of Judah" (Bar. 1, 8), the Zedekiah under whom Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians.