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2 Kings 24:19

in 2 Kings 24

And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

KJV

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

This verse in 2 Kings 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
He did that which was evil - The character of Zedekiah seems to have been weak rather than wicked. Consult Jer. 34; 37: His chief recorded sins were: (1) his refusal to be guided in his political conduct by Jeremiah’s counsels, while nevertheless he admitted him to be a true Yahweh-prophet; and (2) his infraction of the allegiance which he had sworn to Nebuchadnezzar.

This site's exposition

according to all that Jehoiakim

on 2 Kings 24:19-20

Zedekiah's evil is measured by the same standard as Jehoiakim's, the third king in this chapter judged by that formula, and Barnes calls him weak rather than wicked, a king who heard Jeremiah and would not obey him. Verse 20 names the cause behind the political history already told: through the anger of the Lord it came to pass, until he had cast them out from his presence, so the narrator gives the theological reading before the political fact, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. Wesley reads the sequence as the people's own sin producing the wicked king who then brought their punishment, not the king producing the people's sin. The chapter ends on the edge of the siege that chapter 25 will finish, the oath sworn to Babylon already broken.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

3 Surely at the commandment of the L ORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the L ORD would not pardon.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But, according to the custom of conquerors, who changed the names of the great men they took captives in war, in token of their supremacy, he gave him the new name of Zedekiah--that is, "The righteous of God." This being a purely Hebrew name, it seems that he allowed the puppet king to choose his own name, which was confirmed.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He did - evil - How astonishing is this! not one of them takes warning by the judgments of God, which fell on their sinful predecessors.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he did

    vaiyaasH62132628 times

  • הָרַ֖עthe evil

    hara'H7451662 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869887 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • כְּכֹ֥לaccording to all

    kekholH36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe had done

    ʾasahH62132628 times

  • יְהוֹיָקִֽים׃Jehoiakim

    yehoyakimH307937 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 Chronicles 36:12

    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 33:23

      but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

    • Jeremiah 37:2–21

      But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

    • Jeremiah 38:14–28

      Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 21:25

    And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 35:5

      Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

    • Ezekiel 21:29

      while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

    • Ezekiel 17:19

      Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 24:8

    But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 43:1

      When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—

    • Jeremiah 37:17

      Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the…

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old and New Testaments; 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.