2 Kings 24:11-20

11 And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging * it.

12 ¹Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So ²the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

13 ³He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and ⁴cut in pieces all the vessels of gold ⁵which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said.

14 Then ⁶he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ⁷ten thousand captives, and ⁸all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained ⁹except the poorest people of the land.

15 So ¹⁰he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 All the men of valor, ¹¹seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

Zedekiah Made King

17 ¹²Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18 ¹³Zedekiah was twenty-one * years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven * years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was ¹⁴Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, ¹⁵according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

20 For ¹⁶through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And ¹⁷Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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2 Kings 24:11-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 24

This chapter relates the rebellion of Jehoiakim against the king of Babylon, which prepared the way for the ruin of the kingdom of Judah, according to the decree of God, and also the death of Jehoiakim, and the conquest the king of Babylon made of part of the land of the king of Egypt, 2Ki 24:1-7 and the short and wicked reign of Jehoiachin his son, when he and the royal family, with great numbers of the inhabitants of the land, were carried captive to Babylon, 2Ki 24:8-16, and his uncle was made king in his room, 2Ki 24:17-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

1. Jeremiah 22:24-30; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1, 2
2. 2 Chronicles 36:10
3. 2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6
4. 2 Kings 25:13-15
5. 1 Kings 7:48-50
6. Jeremiah 24:1
7. 2 Kings 24:16; Jeremiah 52:28
8. Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:2
9. 2 Kings 25:12
10. 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 22:24-28; Ezekiel 17:12
11. 2 Kings 24:14
12. 2 Chronicles 36:10-13; Jeremiah 37:1
13. Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 52:1
14. 2 Kings 23:31
15. 2 Kings 23:37
16. Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 29:27; 2 Kings 23:26
17. 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:15

Footnotes 1

[a]. I.e. Jehoiachin's uncle