
2 Kingschapter 25
30 verses · Jeremiah, by tradition · 6th century BC · History
Original Language
2 Kings 25— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Kings 25. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
The yearly cycle does not read 2 Kings 25. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
A breach by night, capture near Jericho, and eyes put out1
2 Kings 25:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 25:1
In the ninth year of his reign. Of Tzidkiyohu. 1 Which corresponds to Nevuchadnetzar's seventeenth year.—Radak
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J
2 Kings 25:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The house burned, the walls broken, the pillars carried away8
2 Kings 25:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 25:11
And the defectors. [Those] who obeyed Nevuchadnetzar and went out to him from the city, as in, “When he went to Tziklag, [members] of Menashe defected to him, etc.” 6 I Divrei Hayomim:21.
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2 Kings 25:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 25:17
The height of the crown was three amohs. And in the beginning of the Book [of Melochim] it states, ”five amohs [high].” 9 Melochim:16. I reconciled the verses there.
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Seventy at Riblah: so Judah was carried away out of his land18
2 Kings 25:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Gedaliah at Mizpah, murdered by a man of the seed royal22
2 Kings 25:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jehoiachin lifted out of prison to eat at the king's table27
2 Kings 25:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:29· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 25:30· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
