2 Kings 24:4-14

4 and ¹also 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 ²Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

7 ³The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again *, ⁴for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from ⁵the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

8 ⁶Jehoiachin was ⁷eighteen * 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, ⁸according 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 ⁹Jehoiachin 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 ¹⁰the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

13 ¹¹He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and ¹²cut in pieces all the vessels of gold ¹³which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said.

14 Then ¹⁴he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ¹⁵ten thousand captives, and ¹⁶all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained ¹⁷except the poorest people of the land.

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2 Kings 24:4-14 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. 2 Kings 21:16
2. Jeremiah 22:18, 19
3. Jeremiah 37:5-7
4. Jeremiah 46:2
5. Genesis 15:18
6. 1 Chronicles 3:16
7. 2 Chronicles 36:9
8. 2 Kings 21:2-7
9. Jeremiah 22:24-30; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1, 2
10. 2 Chronicles 36:10
11. 2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6
12. 2 Kings 25:13-15
13. 1 Kings 7:48-50
14. Jeremiah 24:1
15. 2 Kings 24:16; Jeremiah 52:28
16. Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:2
17. 2 Kings 25:12