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2 Kings 20:17

in 2 Kings 20

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

This verse in 2 Kings 20

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

Hear the word of the LORD

on 2 Kings 20:16-18

The sentence is plain: everything in the palace and all that Hezekiah's fathers had stored up will be "carried off to Babylon," with nothing left. Hezekiah's own descendants will serve as eunuchs in the Babylonian king's palace. Kings later names Manasseh's sins as the cause of the exile this word first announces. Babylon supplied settlers for Samaria at 17:24, and here Kings first names it as the power that will carry off Judah's treasures.

This site's exposition

carried off to Babylon

Clarke traces the fulfilment to the Babylonian raids of Daniel 1:1 to 3, when the land and the temple were stripped. Wesley holds the sentence a judgment on pride and on trust in a league with Babylon. 2 Kings 24:13 records the treasures carried off.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Behold - This judgment is denounced against him for his pride; for his ingratitude, whereby he took that honour to himself which he should have given entirely to God; and for his carnal confidence in that league which he had now made with the king of Babylon, by which, it is probable, he thought his mountain to be so strong, that it could not be removed.

A commentator

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 Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Behold, the days come - This was fulfilled in the days of the latter Jewish kings, when the Babylonians had led the people away into captivity, and stripped the land, the temple, etc., of all their riches. See Dan 1:1-3.

A commentator

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.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • הִנֵּה֮here!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • יָמִ֣יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • בָּאִים֒[are] coming

    baimH935 →2568 times

  • וְנִשָּׂ֣א׀and it will be carried off

    venisa'H5375 →656 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּבֵיתֶ֗ךָ[is] in house your

    beveitekhaH1004 →2046 times

  • וַאֲשֶׁ֨רand [that] which

    vaasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָצְר֧וּthey have stored up

    ʾatzeruH686 →

  • אֲבֹתֶ֛יךָancestors your

    ʾavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַיּ֥וֹםthe day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֖ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • בָּבֶ֑לָהBabylon towards

    bavelahH894 →262 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִוָּתֵ֥רit will be left behind

    yivaterH3498 →106 times

  • דָּבָ֖רanything

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • אָמַ֥רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 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 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…

    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.

    • 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;

    • 2 Kings 25:13–15

      Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

    • 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…

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 37:1

      Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.

    • 2 Chronicles 36:7

      Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

    • Daniel 5:23

      Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, On Jacob and the Blessed Life, Book 1, Chapter 8.36; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.