2 Kings 25:13-21

13 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

14 They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

15 The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.

16 The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.

17 Each pillar was eighteen cubits^[a] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits^[b] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.

18 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.

19 Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.

20 Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

21 There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.

2 Kings 25:13-21 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

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Kings 7:50
• 2. S Numbers 7:14
• 3. Exodus 27:3; S 2 Kings 24:13; Ezra 1:7; 1 Kings 7:47-50
• 4. S 2 Kings 24:13; Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 20:5; Jeremiah 27:16-22
• 5. 1 Kings 7:15-22
• 6. ver 18-21; 1 Chronicles 6:14; Ezra 7:1; Nehemiah 11:11
• 7. Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 37:3
• 8. S 2 Kings 12:9; S 2 Kings 23:4
• 9. S Numbers 34:11
• 10. Jeremiah 34:21
• 11. S 1 Kings 8:46
• 12. S Genesis 12:7; Deuteronomy 28:64; S Joshua 23:13; 2 Kings 23:27

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 27 feet or about 8.1 meters
• [b]. That is, about 4 1/2 feet or about 1.4 meters