2 Chronicles 36:6
in 2 Chronicles 36Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
KJV
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36
Commentary
5 notes on this verseCame up Nebuchadnezzar - See the notes on 2Ki 24:1. Archbishop Usher believes that Jehoiakim remained three years after this tributary to the Chaldeans, and that it is from this period that the seventy years’ captivity, predicted by Jeremiah, is to be reckoned.
This site's exposition
he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God
on 2 Chronicles 36:5-8
Jehoiakim does evil, and Chronicles adds a detail Kings omits: Nebuchadnezzar binds him “with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon”. Adam Clarke notes that the record does not say the deportation was carried out. Some articles of the LORD's house go to Babylon and into Nebuchadnezzar's own temple.
This site's exposition
bound him with bronze shackles
The text states the purpose, to take him to Babylon, and leaves the outcome open. Matthew Henry and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown judge that he was left on the throne as a vassal. Adam Clarke reports Archbishop Ussher's view that the seventy years of captivity are counted from this point.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), seized him, and bound him with a design to carry him to Babylon; but, it seems, he either changed his mind, and suffered him to reign as his vassal, or death released the prisoner before he was carried away.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Though Jehoiakim had been taken prisoner (and it was designed at first to transport him in chains to Babylon), he was allowed to remain in his tributary kingdom. But having given not long after some new offense, Jerusalem was besieged by a host of Assyrian dependents.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָלָ֣יו | ʾalav | on him | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| עָלָ֔ה | ʾalah | he came up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר | nevukhadnetzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → | 60 times |
| מֶ֣לֶךְ | melekh | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| בָּבֶ֑ל | bavel | Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
| וַיַּֽאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙ | vaiyaasrehu | and he bound him | H631 → | 72 times |
| בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם | banchushtayim | with <the> bronze fetters | H5178 → | 140 times |
| לְהֹלִיכ֖וֹ | leholikho | to take him | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בָּבֶֽלָה׃ | bavelah | Babylon towards | H894 → | 262 times |
עָלָ֣יוon him
ʾalavH5921 →5755 times
עָלָ֔הhe came up
ʾalahH5927 →890 times
נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖רNebuchadnezzar
nevukhadnetzarH5019 →60 times
מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of
melekhH4428 →2525 times
בָּבֶ֑לBabylon
bavelH894 →262 times
וַיַּֽאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙and he bound him
vaiyaasrehuH631 →72 times
בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִםwith <the> bronze fetters
banchushtayimH5178 →140 times
לְהֹלִיכ֖וֹto take him
leholikhoH1980 →1546 times
בָּבֶֽלָה׃Babylon towards
bavelahH894 →262 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
it leads to
- Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
- Jeremiah 1:15
For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem.…
- Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Ezekiel 29:18–20
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from…
- Habakkuk 1:6–10
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- Isaiah 13:3
Through
2 Chronicles 33:11So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:36
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- 2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and…
- Psalms 107:10–14
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- Deuteronomy 28:36
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.