2 Kings 24:3-13

3 ¹Surely at the command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ²because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

4 and ³also 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 ⁴Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

7 ⁵The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again *, ⁶for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from ⁷the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

8 ⁸Jehoiachin was ⁹eighteen * 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, ¹⁰according 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 ¹¹Jehoiachin 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 ¹²the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

13 ¹³He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and ¹⁴cut in pieces all the vessels of gold ¹⁵which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said.

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2 Kings 24:3-13 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 15

1. 2 Kings 18:25
2. 2 Kings 23:26
3. 2 Kings 21:16
4. Jeremiah 22:18, 19
5. Jeremiah 37:5-7
6. Jeremiah 46:2
7. Genesis 15:18
8. 1 Chronicles 3:16
9. 2 Chronicles 36:9
10. 2 Kings 21:2-7
11. Jeremiah 22:24-30; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1, 2
12. 2 Chronicles 36:10
13. 2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6
14. 2 Kings 25:13-15
15. 1 Kings 7:48-50

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "mouth"