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2 Kings 25:1-11

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Fall and Captivity of Judah

1 1And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, 2Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. 3And they built siegeworks all around it.
2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 On the ninth day of the fourth month 4the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by 5the king's garden, though 6the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the 7Arabah.
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 they captured the king 8and brought him up to the king of Babylon at 9Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, 10and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
8 11In the fifth month, on 12the seventh day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9 13And he burned the house of the LORD 14and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, 15broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11 16And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
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2 Kings 25:1-11 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 16

  • 1. For ver. 1-7, see 2 Chronicles 36:17-20; Jeremiah 39:1-7; Jeremiah 52:4-11
  • 2. Jeremiah 34:1, 2; Jeremiah 39:1, 2; Ezekiel 24:2
  • 3. [Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 26:8]
  • 4. [Lamentations 4:9, 10]
  • 5. Nehemiah 3:15
  • 6. See 2 Kings 24:2
  • 7. See Deuteronomy 1:1
  • 8. Jeremiah 32:4
  • 9. [2 Kings 23:33]
  • 10. [Ezekiel 12:13]
  • 11. For ver. 8-12, see Jeremiah 39:8-12; Jeremiah 52:12-16
  • 12. [Jeremiah 52:12]
  • 13. 2 Chronicles 36:19; Psalms 79:1
  • 14. [Hosea 8:14; Amos 2:5]
  • 15. Nehemiah 1:3
  • 16. 2 Chronicles 36:20
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