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2 Kings 24:10

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At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

KJV

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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This verse in 2 Kings 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
At that time,.... When Jehoiachin reigned: when the year was expired; so it is in 2Ch 36:10 or at the revolution of the year; which some take to be autumn, the beginning of the civil year with the Jews; but rather it was the spring, the time when kings went out to battle, 2Sa 11:1. the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem; that is, his army, under proper generals and officers, and by his orders: and the city was besieged; in form by the Chaldean army.

This site's exposition

the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

on 2 Kings 24:10-12

Jehoiachin surrenders with "his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials". Gill dates the capture to the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign and reckons the seventy years of captivity from this point. The whole royal household goes out together, the pattern the exile keeps to the book's last chapter.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Cassian

CONFERENCE 5.12 · Written before 435.

proposed

There is an excellent and significant illustration in the book of Kings, showing how the sin of fornication is prevented by an attack of pride.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But Nebuchadnezzar's clemency towards the kings of Judah was now exhausted, so that Jehoiachin was sent as a captive to Babylon, according to Jeremiah's prediction (Jer 22:24), accompanied by the queen mother (the same who had held that dignity under Jehoahaz) (2Ki 23:31), his generals, and officers.
Came up against Jerusalem - The cause and circumstances of this siege are equally obscure. Perhaps Nebuchadnezzar detected Jehoiachin in some attempt to open communications with Egypt.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • בָּעֵ֣תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִ֔יא<the> that

    hahi'H1931 →1879 times

  • עָל֗וּthey went up

    alahH5927 →890 times

  • עַבְדֵ֛י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650 →799 times

  • נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֥רNebuchadnezzar

    nevukhadnetzarH5019 →60 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶ֖לBabylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וַתָּבֹ֥אand it came

    vatavo'H935 →2568 times

  • הָעִ֖ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃in <the> state of siege

    bamatzorH4692 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 24 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Cassian, CONFERENCE 5.12; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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