2 Kings 25:2-12

2 So the city was under siege until the eleventh * year of King Zedekiah.

3 On the ninth day of the fourth month ¹the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

4 ²Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside ³the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him.

6 Then ⁴they captured the king and ⁵brought him to the king of Babylon at ⁶Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.

7 ⁷They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ⁸put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

Jerusalem Burned and Plundered

8 ⁹Now on the seventh day of the ¹⁰fifth month, which was the nineteenth * year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9 ¹¹He burned the house of the LORD, ¹²the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

10 So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ¹³broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

11 Then ¹⁴the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.

12 But the captain of the guard left some of ¹⁵the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

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2 Kings 25:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 25

In this chapter is an account of the siege, taking, and burning of the city of Jerusalem, and of the carrying captive the king and the inhabitants to Babylon, 2Ki 25:1-12, as also of the pillars and vessels of the temple brought thither, 2Ki 25:13-17 and of the putting to death several of the principal persons of the land, 2Ki 25:18-22, and of the miserable condition of the rest under Gedaliah, whom Ishmael slew, 2Ki 25:23-26, and the chapter, and so the history, is concluded with the kindness Jehoiachin met with from the king of Babylon, after thirty seven years' captivity, 2Ki 25:27-30.

&c.] Of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. From hence to the end of 2Ki 25:7, the account exactly agrees with Jer 52:4-11. 18182-941226-1348-2Ki25.2

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. 2 Kings 6:24, 25; Lamentations 4:9, 10
2. Ezekiel 33:21
3. Nehemiah 3:15
4. Jeremiah 34:21, 22
5. Jeremiah 32:4
6. 2 Kings 23:33
7. Jeremiah 39:6, 7
8. Ezekiel 12:13
9. Jeremiah 52:12
10. Jeremiah 39:8-12
11. 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Psalms 74:3-7
12. Amos 2:5
13. 2 Kings 14:13; Nehemiah 1:3
14. 2 Chronicles 36:20
15. 2 Kings 24:14; Jeremiah 40:7

Footnotes 2

[a]. So some ancient mss and versions; M.T. "he"
[b]. Lit "they spoke judgment with him"