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2 Kings 24:12

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

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ASV

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

KJV

And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֵּצֵ֞אvai.ye.Tze'and he went outH3318 →
יְהוֹיָכִ֤יןye.ho.ya.KhinJehoiachinH3078 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428 →
יְהוּדָה֙ye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
עַל־'al-toH5921 →
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428 →
בָּבֶ֔לba.VelBabylonH894 →
ה֣וּאhu'heH1931 →
וְאִמּ֔וֹve.'i.Moand mother hisH517 →
וַעֲבָדָ֖יוva.'a.va.Davand servants hisH5650 →
וְשָׂרָ֣יוve.sa.Ravand officials hisH8269 →
וְסָֽרִיסָ֑יוve.sa.ri.Savand court-officials hisH5631 →
וַיִּקַּ֤חvai.yi.Kachand he tookH3947 →
אֹתוֹ֙'o.To<obj.> himH853 →
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428 →
בָּבֶ֔לba.VelBabylonH894 →
בִּשְׁנַ֥תbish.Natin yearH8141 →
שְׁמֹנֶ֖הshe.mo.NeheightH8083 →
לְמָלְכֽוֹ׃le.ma.le.Khoof reigning hisH4427 →

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Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”2 Kings 25:29So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.Jeremiah 52:28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;Jeremiah 24:1After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.Ecclesiastes 4:14For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.2 Chronicles 36:10In 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 Jerusalem.Jeremiah 29:1–2This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.2 Kings 25:27On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.2 Kings 20:18And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”Jeremiah 37:1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.Jeremiah 38:17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.Ezekiel 17:12“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.Jeremiah 25:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.Jeremiah 52:12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.Ezekiel 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of IsraelIsaiah 39:7And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”Jeremiah 38:18But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.’”Jeremiah 38:17–18Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

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