2 Kings 24 Study Notes
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24:10-12 After a brief siege, Jehoiachin and all his high officials surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Significantly, the expression eighth year of his reign must refer to Nebuchadnezzar’s eighth year. This change to a pagan dating of events marked the impending end of Judah. The year was 597 BC.
24:13 The plundering of the city of Jerusalem seemed to be very thorough. It is remarkable that there was still some gold from the time of Solomon left to be plundered after more than three centuries of foreign plundering. This fulfilled the prophecy to Hezekiah in 20:17.
24:14-16 Everyone except the poorest classes of the city were taken into captivity. The able-bodied soldiers might have been conscripted into the Babylonian army.
24:17 Mattaniah (“gift of Yahweh”) became Zedekiah (“Yahweh is righteous” or “righteousness of Yahweh”).
24:18-19 The formal opening statements and evaluation of Zedekiah are routine for a wicked, faithless king.
24:20 The grounds for Zedekiah’s poor evaluation predated the wickedness of the current king. God was already angry, and judgment was inevitable (vv. 3-4; see 21:15).