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2 Kings 25:4-14

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4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by 1the king's garden, though 2the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the 3Arabah.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
6 Then they captured the king 4and brought him up to the king of Babylon at 5Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, 6and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
8 7In the fifth month, on 8the seventh day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9 9And he burned the house of the LORD 10and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, 11broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11 12And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
12 But the captain of the guard left 13some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
13 14And the pillars 15of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and 16the stands and 17the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
14 18And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,
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2 Kings 25:4-14 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

Cross References 18

  • 1. Nehemiah 3:15
  • 2. See 2 Kings 24:2
  • 3. See Deuteronomy 1:1
  • 4. Jeremiah 32:4
  • 5. [2 Kings 23:33]
  • 6. [Ezekiel 12:13]
  • 7. For ver. 8-12, see Jeremiah 39:8-12; Jeremiah 52:12-16
  • 8. [Jeremiah 52:12]
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 36:19; Psalms 79:1
  • 10. [Hosea 8:14; Amos 2:5]
  • 11. Nehemiah 1:3
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 36:20
  • 13. 2 Kings 24:14; Jeremiah 40:7
  • 14. [Jeremiah 27:19, 22]; For ver. 13-17, see 2 Chronicles 36:18-20; Jeremiah 52:17-23
  • 15. 1 Kings 7:15
  • 16. 1 Kings 7:27
  • 17. 1 Kings 7:23
  • 18. Exodus 27:3; 1 Kings 7:45, 50
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