2 Chronicles 36:7
in 2 Chronicles 36Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
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ASV
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
KJV
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
In his temple - Compare “the house of his god” Dan 1:2. Nebuchadnezzars inscriptions show him to have been the special votary of Merodach, the Babylonian Mars. His temple, which the Greeks called the temple of Behus, was one of the most magnificent buildings in Babylon. Its ruins still remain in the vast mound, called Babil, which is the loftiest and most imposing of the “heaps” that mark the site of the ancient city.
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
put them in his temple in Babylon
Daniel 1:2 records the same removal, the articles placed in the treasury of his god. Albert Barnes identifies that god as Merodach. Matthew Henry sees a just return: Judah had brought idols into the LORD's house, and now the LORD's vessels served in an idol's house.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The sin of Judah was that they had brought the idols of the heathen into God's temple; and now their punishment was that the vessels of the temple were carried away to the service of the gods of the nations. If men will profane God's institutions by their sins, it is just with God to suffer them to be profaned by their enemies.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִכְּלֵי֙ | umikelei | and some of [the] articles of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| הֵבִ֥יא | hevi' | he brought | H935 → | 2568 times |
| נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר | nevukhadnetzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → | 60 times |
| לְבָבֶ֑ל | levavel | to Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
| וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם | vaiyitenem | and he put them | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בְּהֵיכָל֖וֹ | beheikhalo | in palace his | H1964 → | 80 times |
| בְּבָבֶֽל׃ | bevavel | in Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
וּמִכְּלֵי֙and some of [the] articles of
umikeleiH3627 →325 times
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
הֵבִ֥יאhe brought
hevi'H935 →2568 times
נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖רNebuchadnezzar
nevukhadnetzarH5019 →60 times
לְבָבֶ֑לto Babylon
levavelH894 →262 times
וַיִּתְּנֵ֥םand he put them
vaiyitenemH5414 →2011 times
בְּהֵיכָל֖וֹin palace his
beheikhaloH1964 →80 times
בְּבָבֶֽל׃in Babylon
bevavelH894 →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
2 Kings 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…
it leads to
- Isaiah 39:6
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 2 Kings 20:17
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:5
I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them…
- 1 Kings 7:48–50
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
- Daniel 5:2–3
Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink…
- Isaiah 39:6
Through
Jeremiah 28:3Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 24:13
As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…
- 2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and…
- Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house…
- 2 Kings 24:13
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.