2 Kings 20:18 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 20:18

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

KJV

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They shall be eunuchs - Perhaps this means no more than that they should become household servants to the kings of Babylon. See the fulfillment, 2Ki 24:13-15, and Dan 1:1-3.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

On Jacob and the Blessed Life, Book 1, Chapter 8.36 (397)

Surely the just Hezekiah did not rejoice that the disaster of the captivity had fallen on his children, but he could not oppose the will of the Lord, and so he received the Lord's commands with patience like a humble servant. Thus it happens that one could judge that merit and virtue could be evident even in captivity. For Jeremiah was not less happy in captivity, nor was Daniel, nor Ezra, nor were Ananias and Azariah and Misael less happy than if they had not fallen into captivity.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Not that it was for this sin that that judgment should be brought upon them: the sins of Manasseh, his idolatries and murders, were the cause of that calamity; but it is now foretold to Hezekiah, to convince him of the folly of his pride and of the value he had for the king of Babylon, and to make him ashamed of it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But, after the destruction of Sennacherib, presents were brought him from various quarters, out of respect to a king who, by his faith and prayer, saved his country; and besides, it is by no means improbable that from the corpses in the Assyrian camp, all the gold and silver he had paid might be recovered.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמִבָּנֶ֜יךָ	u.mi.ba.Nei.kha	and some of descendants your	H1121 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
יֵצְא֧וּ	ye.tze.'U	they will come forth	H3318 →
מִמְּךָ֛	mi.me.Kha	from you	H4480 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
תּוֹלִ֖יד	to.Lid	you will father	H3205 →
יִקָּ֑חוּ	yi.kach	people will take away	H3947 →
וְהָיוּ֙	ve.ha.Yu	and they will be	H1961 →
סָֽרִיסִ֔ים	sa.ri.Sim	eunuchs	H5631 →
בְּהֵיכַ֖ל	be.hei.Khal	in [the] palace of	H1964 →
מֶ֥לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
בָּבֶֽל׃	ba.Vel	Babylon	H894 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Daniel 1:3
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
leads to
- Isaiah 39:7
  And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
- 2 Kings 20:17–18
  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.
Through
2 Chronicles 33:11
So 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.
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.
Through
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him…
leads to
- Jeremiah 24:1
  After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to…
- Jeremiah 52:28
  These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- 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…
- 2 Kings 25:27
  On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from…
Through
2 Kings 25:6
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
leads to
- 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…