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2 Kings 25:14

in 2 Kings 25

They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

KJV

And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

This verse in 2 Kings 25

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

They also took away the pots, shovels

on 2 Kings 25:14-17

The pillar's height of "eighteen cubits" and its "network of bronze pomegranates" repeat the casting description of 1 Kings 7:15-16 almost word for word. Verse 16 says "the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure", an echo of the original casting account.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was a righteous thing with God to deprive those of the benefit of his worship who had slighted it so long and preferred false worships before it. Those that would have many altars shall now have none. Several of the great men are slain in cold blood--Seraiah the chief priest (who was the father of Ezra as appears, Ezra vii.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus has Jerusalem become as a widow, Lam. i. Ichabod--Where is the glory? The distraction and dispersion of the remnant that was left in Judah under Gedaliah,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

His office as captain of the guard (Ge 37:36; 39:1) called him to execute the awards of justice on criminals; and hence, although not engaged in the siege of Jerusalem (Jer 39:13), Nebuzar-adan was despatched to rase the city, to plunder the temple, to lay both in ruins, demolish the fortifications, and transport the inhabitants to Babylon.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַסִּירֹ֨תthe pots

    hasirotH5518 →34 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַיָּעִ֜יםthe shovels

    haiyaimH3257 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹתthe snuffers

    hamzamerotH4212 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַכַּפּ֗וֹתthe pans

    hakapotH3709 →192 times

  • וְאֵ֨תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלֵ֧י[the] articles of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת<the> bronze

    hanechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־people served

    yesharetu-H8334 →97 times

  • בָ֖םwith them

    vam

  • לָקָֽחוּ׃they took

    lakachuH3947 →966 times

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

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Exodus 27:3

    Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:45

      and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

    • 1 Chronicles 28:17

      the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

    • Jeremiah 52:18–20

      They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

    • 2 Chronicles 4:11

      Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

  • Through

    Exodus 38:3

    He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 27:3

      Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

    • 1 Samuel 2:13

      or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 24:14

    When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:38–42

      This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.

    • 1 Kings 7:50

      the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.