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2 Kings 25:20

in 2 Kings 25

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

KJV

And Nebuzar–adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

This verse in 2 Kings 25

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

took away Seraiah the chief priest

on 2 Kings 25:18-21

Seraiah "the chief priest" is named as Jehozadak's father at 1 Chronicles 6:14-15, and Ezra 7:1 traces Ezra's priestly line back through this same Seraiah. All are struck down at Riblah, and the verse closes the kingdom: "So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land."

This site's exposition

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard

Nebuzaradan carried out Nebuchadnezzar's order at Jeremiah 39:11-12 to look after Jeremiah, and at Jeremiah 40:1 he released the prophet from his chains at Ramah. The same captain of the guard brought these men to Riblah. The prophet went free and the court went to judgment.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That it was the holy city, where was the testimony of Israel; but that glory has departed, for Solomon's temple is burnt to the ground (

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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.

  • וַיִּקַּ֣חand he took

    vaiyikachH3947 →966 times

  • אֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ןNebuzaradan

    nevuzaradanH5018 →16 times

  • רַב־[the] chief of

    rav-H7227 →454 times

  • טַבָּחִ֑ים[the] bodyguards

    tabachimH2876 →32 times

  • וַיֹּ֧לֶךְand he brought

    vaiyolekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֹתָ֛ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶ֖לBabylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • רִבְלָֽתָה׃Riblah towards

    rivlatahH7247 →11 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

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 8:65

      So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…

    • 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.

    • Jeremiah 52:26–27

      Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

  • Through

    Lamentations 4:16

    The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 9:14–16

      So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

    • Lamentations 5:12

      Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

    • Deuteronomy 32:26

      I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

    • Deuteronomy 28:64–65

      Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…

    • Hebrews 8:9

      It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Jeremiah 39:11-12; Jeremiah 40:1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.