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2 Kings 25:1-3

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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.
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2 Kings 25:1-3 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 4

  • 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]
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