2 Kings 24:11
in 2 Kings 24And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
KJV
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
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This verse in 2 Kings 24
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the servants of Nebuchadnezzar
on 2 Kings 24:10-12
The siege that closes Jehoiachin's three months opens with his servants and ends with Nebuchadnezzar himself arriving in person, the king following his own army to press the surrender. Jehoiachin goes out to the king of Babylon with his mother, his servants, his princes and his officers rather than holding the city, a choice Wesley sets against Hezekiah's stand a century earlier under a harder threat. Gill dates the capture to the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's own reign and reckons the seventy years of captivity from this point, the first of Judah's kings actually taken to Babylon rather than merely made tributary. The whole royal household walks out together, the pattern the exile keeps to the book's last chapter.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
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 Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,.... He came in person, following his army: and his servants did besiege it; very closely.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Yehoyachin king of Yehudah, came out to the king of Bavel. That he do to him as he wishes, and not for war. 6 Nevuchadnetzar, at this time, did not come to destroy Yerusholayim. He only demanded that Yehoyachin be handed over to him. See Vayikra Rabboh:6.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּבֹ֛א | vaiyavo' | and he came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר | nevukhadnetzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → | 60 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| בָּבֶ֖ל | bavel | Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הָעִ֑יר | hair | the city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| וַעֲבָדָ֖יו | vaavadav | and servants his | H5650 → | 799 times |
| צָרִ֥ים | tzarim | [were] laying siege | H6696 → | 38 times |
| עָלֶֽיהָ׃ | ʾaleiha | on it | H5921 → | 5755 times |
וַיָּבֹ֛אand he came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥רNebuchadnezzar
nevukhadnetzarH5019 →60 times
מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of
melekh-H4428 →2525 times
בָּבֶ֖לBabylon
bavelH894 →262 times
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הָעִ֑ירthe city
hairH5892 →1090 times
וַעֲבָדָ֖יוand servants his
vaavadavH5650 →799 times
צָרִ֥ים[were] laying siege
tzarimH6696 →38 times
עָלֶֽיהָ׃on it
ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Cassian, CONFERENCE 5.12; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.