2 Kings 24:3

3 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;

2 Kings 24:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 24:3

Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to
remove them out of his sight
It was the sure and certain decree of God they should be carried captive, and therefore he stirred up the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar, and gave him orders to go against it:

for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
which were still continued among the Jews, and committed by them, though repented of by Manasseh, and he returned from them.

2 Kings 24:3 In-Context

1 In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.

2 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.

3 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;

4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

5 But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers: