2 Kings 24:10-17

Jerusalem Captured

10 At that time the servants of ¹Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

11 And ²Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

12 ³and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ⁴The king of Babylon took him prisoner ⁵in the eighth year of his reign

13 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD ⁶and the treasures of the king's house, ⁷and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, ⁸which Solomon king of Israel had made, ⁹as the LORD had foretold.

14 ¹⁰He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ¹¹ 10,000 captives, ¹²and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ¹³except the poorest people of the land.

15 ¹⁴And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, ¹⁵ 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.

17 ¹⁶And the king of Babylon ¹⁷made Mattaniah, ¹⁸Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, ¹⁹and changed his name to Zedekiah.

2 Kings 24:10-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 24

This chapter relates the rebellion of Jehoiakim against the king of Babylon, which prepared the way for the ruin of the kingdom of Judah, according to the decree of God, and also the death of Jehoiakim, and the conquest the king of Babylon made of part of the land of the king of Egypt, 2Ki 24:1-7 and the short and wicked reign of Jehoiachin his son, when he and the royal family, with great numbers of the inhabitants of the land, were carried captive to Babylon, 2Ki 24:8-16, and his uncle was made king in his room, 2Ki 24:17-20.

Cross References

• 1. Daniel 1:1
• 2. [See ver. 10 above]
• 3. [Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1, 2; Ezekiel 17:12]
• 4. [2 Chronicles 36:10]
• 5. [2 Kings 25:27]
• 6. 2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6
• 7. 2 Chronicles 36:7; Ezra 1:7; Daniel 1:2; Daniel 5:2, 3
• 8. See 1 Kings 7:48-50
• 9. Jeremiah 20:5
• 10. Jeremiah 24:1
• 11. [ver. 16; Jeremiah 52:28]
• 12. Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:2; [1 Samuel 13:19, 22]
• 13. 2 Kings 25:12
• 14. 2 Chronicles 36:10; Esther 2:6; [Jeremiah 22:24-26]
• 15. [ver. 14]
• 16. For ver. 17-20, see 2 Chronicles 36:10-13
• 17. [Jeremiah 37:1]
• 18. [1 Chronicles 3:15]
• 19. [2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4]