2 Kings 25:13
in 2 Kings 25Moreover, 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.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
KJV
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
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This verse in 2 Kings 25
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The pillars of brass ... - All the more precious treasures had been already removed from the temple 2Ki 24:13. But there still remained many things, the list of which is given in Jer 52:17-23 much more fully than in this place. Objects in brass, or rather bronze, were frequently carried off by the Assyrians from the conquered nations. Bronze was highly valued, being the chief material both for arms and implements. The breaking up of the pillars, bases, etc., shows that it was for the material, and not for the workmanship, that they were valued.
This site's exposition
did the Chaldees break
The two pillars named Jachin and Boaz at their casting, he shall establish and in him is strength, are broken in pieces without their names spoken, the silence itself the point after 1 Ki 7:21 gave them names a worshipper read every time he entered. The molten sea Hiram cast at 1 Ki 7:23-26 goes the same way, and the brass of both is carried to Babylon. What stood roughly three hundred and seventy years from Solomon's dedication ends as scrap metal for a foreign treasury.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
When the things signified were sinned away what should the signs stand there for? Ahaz had profanely cut off the borders of the bases, and put the brazen sea upon a pavement of stones ( 2 Kings xvi. 17 ); justly therefore are the brass themselves, and the brazen sea, delivered into the enemy's hand.
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord,.... The two pillars in the temple, Jachin and Boaz.
Thus has Jerusalem become as a widow, Lam. i. Ichabod--Where is the glory? The distraction and dispersion of the remnant that was left in Judah under Gedaliah,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
His office as captain of the guard (Ge 37:36; 39:1) called him to execute the awards of justice on criminals; and hence, although not engaged in the siege of Jerusalem (Jer 39:13), Nebuzar-adan was despatched to rase the city, to plunder the temple, to lay both in ruins, demolish the fortifications, and transport the inhabitants to Babylon.
The words behind it
20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַמּוּדֵ֨י | ʾamudei | [the] pillars of | H5982 → | 111 times |
| הַנְּחֹ֜שֶׁת | hanechoshet | <the> bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בֵּית־ | beit- | [were] [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֗ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וְֽאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמְּכֹנ֞וֹת | hamekhonot | the stands | H4350 → | 24 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יָ֧ם | yam | [the] sea of | H3220 → | 396 times |
| הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת | hanechoshet | <the> bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בְּבֵית־ | beveit- | [was] in [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| שִׁבְּר֣וּ | shiberu | they broke | H7665 → | 147 times |
| כַשְׂדִּ֑ים | khasdim | [the] Chaldeans | H3778 → | 80 times |
| וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ | vaiyisu | and they carried | H5375 → | 656 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נְחֻשְׁתָּ֖ם | nechushtam | bronze their | H5178 → | 140 times |
| בָּבֶֽלָה׃ | bavelah | Babylon towards | H894 → | 262 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
עַמּוּדֵ֨י[the] pillars of
ʾamudeiH5982 →111 times
הַנְּחֹ֜שֶׁת<the> bronze
hanechoshetH5178 →140 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בֵּית־[were] [the] house of
beit-H1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֗הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וְֽאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַמְּכֹנ֞וֹתthe stands
hamekhonotH4350 →24 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
יָ֧ם[the] sea of
yamH3220 →396 times
הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת<the> bronze
hanechoshetH5178 →140 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בְּבֵית־[was] in [the] house of
beveit-H1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
שִׁבְּר֣וּthey broke
shiberuH7665 →147 times
כַשְׂדִּ֑ים[the] Chaldeans
khasdimH3778 →80 times
וַיִּשְׂא֥וּand they carried
vaiyisuH5375 →656 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
נְחֻשְׁתָּ֖םbronze their
nechushtamH5178 →140 times
בָּבֶֽלָה׃Babylon towards
bavelahH894 →262 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 20:17The 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.
it leads to
- 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…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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…
- Jeremiah 52:17–19
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10
Through
Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:3
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Jeremiah 51:51
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Deuteronomy 23:3
Through
2 Chronicles 36:18who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
it leads to
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:7
Through
1 Kings 7:15He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 52:21
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15–17
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
- Jeremiah 52:21
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
