Zidkijah

Zidkijah (meaning: justice of the Lord) is listed among those who sealed the covenant renewal under Nehemiah recorded in Nehemiah 10:1. He appears first on the list of signatories, after Nehemiah the governor himself, suggesting a position of some prominence among the priests or leaders of restored Jerusalem. No further biographical details are given.

The name is a variant form of Zedekiah and shares its theological declaration that the LORD is righteousness. The covenant sealed in Nehemiah 10 bound the returnees to keep the law of Moses, to avoid intermarriage with surrounding peoples, to observe the sabbath, to forgo the seventh-year harvest, and to maintain the temple and its offerings.