Kings II 24:13

13 And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose to befall thee, whether there shall come upon thee three years famine in thy land; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies, and they should pursue thee; or that there should be three days mortality in thy land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Kings II 24:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 24:13

And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of
the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house
The gates of the city being thrown open to him, he entered and plundered the temple, and the royal palace, and took from thence all the riches thereof:

and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said;
( 2 Kings 20:17 ) and so the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled. No more is said of these vessels in ( 2 Chronicles 36:10 ) than that they were brought to Babylon; and so Piscator renders the word here, "took", or "carried them away"; and certain it is that they were carried whole to Babylon, ( Daniel 5:2 Daniel 5:3 ) but as Hezekiah is said to cut off the doors of the temple, that is, strip or scrape off the gold of them, ( 2 Kings 18:16 ) so Nebuchadnezzar cut off from the temple, or stripped it of the golden vessels in it; of great part of them, the greater part thereof; for that there were some left is plain from ( Jeremiah 27:18-22 ) .

Kings II 24:13 In-Context

11 And David rose early in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying, Go, and speak to David, saying,

12 Thus saith the Lord, I bring three things upon thee: now choose thee one of them, and I will do to thee.

13 And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose to befall thee, whether there shall come upon thee three years famine in thy land; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies, and they should pursue thee; or that there should be three days mortality in thy land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

14 And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

15 So David chose for himself the mortality: and the days of wheat-harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men.