2 Kings 24:2-12

2 The LORD sent against him ¹bands of Chaldeans, ²bands of Arameans, ³bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites *. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, ⁴according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

3 ⁵Surely at the command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ⁶because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

4 and ⁷also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

Jehoiachin Reigns

6 So ⁸Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

7 ⁹The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again *, ¹⁰for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from ¹¹the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

8 ¹²Jehoiachin was ¹³eighteen * years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, ¹⁴according to all that his father had done.

Deportation to Babylon

10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

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

12 ¹⁵Jehoiachin 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 ¹⁶the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

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2 Kings 24:2-12 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 16

1. Jeremiah 35:11
2. 2 Kings 6:23
3. 2 Kings 13:20
4. 2 Kings 23:27
5. 2 Kings 18:25
6. 2 Kings 23:26
7. 2 Kings 21:16
8. Jeremiah 22:18, 19
9. Jeremiah 37:5-7
10. Jeremiah 46:2
11. Genesis 15:18
12. 1 Chronicles 3:16
13. 2 Chronicles 36:9
14. 2 Kings 21:2-7
15. Jeremiah 22:24-30; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1, 2
16. 2 Chronicles 36:10

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "mouth"