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2 Kings 25:13-23

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13 Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord's temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir, which were in the Lord's temple,[a] and carried the bronze to Babylon.
14 They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in [temple] service.
15 The commander of the guards took away the firepans and the sprinkling basins-whatever was gold or silver.
16 As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the water carts that Solomon had made for the Lord's temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
17 One pillar was 27 feet[b] tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet[c] high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.[d]
18 The commander of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
19 From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; five trusted royal aides[e] found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people[f] who were found within the city.
20 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21 The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.[g]

Gedaliah Made Governor

22 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah[h] son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over the rest of the people he left in the land of Judah.
23 When all the commanders of the armies-they and their men-heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. [The commanders included] Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite-they and their men.
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2 Kings 25:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 25

In this chapter is an account of the siege, taking, and burning of the city of Jerusalem, and of the carrying captive the king and the inhabitants to Babylon, 2Ki 25:1-12, as also of the pillars and vessels of the temple brought thither, 2Ki 25:13-17 and of the putting to death several of the principal persons of the land, 2Ki 25:18-22, and of the miserable condition of the rest under Gedaliah, whom Ishmael slew, 2Ki 25:23-26, and the chapter, and so the history, is concluded with the kindness Jehoiachin met with from the king of Babylon, after thirty seven years' captivity, 2Ki 25:27-30.

&c.] Of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. From hence to the end of 2Ki 25:7, the account exactly agrees with Jer 52:4-11. 18182-941226-1348-2Ki25.2

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 8

  • [a] 1 Kg 7:23,27
  • [b] Lit 18 cubits
  • [c] Lit three cubits
  • [d] 1 Kg 7:17
  • [e] Lit five men who look on the king's face
  • [f] Lit the people of the land
  • [g] Jr 52:17-27
  • [h] Jr 39:14
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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