2 Kings · 20 verses
2 Kings 24
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When Babylon takes Jerusalem, the temple gold is not merely carried off: it is cut into pieces, as though even treasure must be made to travel badly.
A rebellion answered by raidersvv. 1–7
Jehoiakim begins as Nebuchadnezzar’s vassal and ends by rebelling, after three years of service. Then Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders come against Judah, while the chapter gives the LORD’s reason in grave and careful terms: Manasseh’s sins, and the innocent blood that filled Jerusalem. Jehoiakim dies, his son succeeds him, and Egypt discovers that the king of Babylon has taken its territory from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.
The three-month reignvv. 8–17
Jehoiachin is eighteen, reigns for three months, and does evil like his father. Nebuchadnezzar’s servants besiege Jerusalem; Nebuchadnezzar himself arrives; and Jehoiachin, his mother, servants, commanders, and officials surrender together. The king of Babylon then removes the treasures of the LORD’s house and the royal palace, cuts Solomon’s gold articles into pieces, and carries away the people described first as all Jerusalem, then as ten thousand captives, then in another tally as seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths. Only the poorest remain. Jehoiachin is taken to Babylon, and his uncle Mattaniah is installed under the new name Zedekiah.
Zedekiah repeats the shapevv. 18–20
Zedekiah is twenty-one and reigns in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother is Hamutal of Libnah; he too does evil, and the chapter closes with the same old hinge as before: rebellion against the king of Babylon. The matter is said to have happened in Jerusalem and Judah until the LORD banished them from His presence.
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2 Kgs 24:1During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Kgs 24:2And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
2 Kgs 24:3Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
2 Kgs 24:5As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kgs 24:6And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2 Kgs 24:7Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
2 Kgs 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
2 Kgs 24:9And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
2 Kgs 24:10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
2 Kgs 24:11And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
2 Kgs 24:12Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
2 Kgs 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
2 Kgs 24:14He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
2 Kgs 24:15Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kgs 24:16The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.
2 Kgs 24:17Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kgs 24:18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
2 Kgs 24:19And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kgs 24:20For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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- 14Jeremiah 52:28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- 1Jeremiah 25:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
- 1Daniel 1:1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
- 2Jeremiah 35:11So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
- 13Isaiah 39:6The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 1Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- 22 Kings 23:27For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
- 7Jeremiah 46:2concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- 7Jeremiah 37:5–7Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
- 81 Chronicles 3:16The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
- 82 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 12Jeremiah 24:1After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- 13Jeremiah 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
- 132 Kings 20:17The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 142 Kings 25:12But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
- 17Jeremiah 37:1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
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