Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 52:1

"Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah." — Jeremiah 52:1 (ASV)

Jeremiah 52 is a historical appendix to the Book of Jeremiah, providing details about the capture of Babylon that are additional to those contained in Jeremiah 39.

The last words of the preceding chapter affirm that Jeremiah was not the author. The view adopted by most commentators is that this chapter is taken from the 2nd Book of Kings, although the person who added it here also had access to other valuable documents and made several modifications to it, the principal modification being the substitution of the account of those led captive by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 52:28–30) for the narrative given in 2 Kings 25:22–26 (see the notes there).