2 Kings 24:12

12 and Yehoiakim the king of Yehudah went out to the king of Bavel, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Bavel took him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 24:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 24:12

And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon,
&c.] Not to fight with him, but to submit to him, and to surrender the city to him, and be at his mercy:

he and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers;
the royal family, courtiers, and nobles:

and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign;
Of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and which was the eighth of the first captivity, and from whence the seventy years' captivity were reckoned.

2 Kings 24:12 In-Context

10 At that time the servants of Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came up to Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged.

11 Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

12 and Yehoiakim the king of Yehudah went out to the king of Bavel, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Bavel took him in the eighth year of his reign.

13 He carried out there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Shlomo king of Yisra'el had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

14 He carried away all Yerushalayim, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.