2 Kings 25:14
in 2 Kings 25They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
KJV
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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This verse in 2 Kings 25
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the pots, and the shovels
on 2 Kings 25:14-17
The smaller vessels, pots, shovels, snuffers, spoons and firepans, are taken by their metal, gold set apart from silver, while the bulk brass is simply broken. The pillar's height at eighteen cubits with a three cubit chapiter, the wreathen work and the pomegranates, repeats the casting description of 1 Ki 7:15-16 almost word for word, the inventory that opened the temple's furnishing closing it here in the same terms. The brass of all these vessels was without weight, an echo of the same phrase used of the sea's original casting.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
It was a righteous thing with God to deprive those of the benefit of his worship who had slighted it so long and preferred false worships before it. Those that would have many altars shall now have none. Several of the great men are slain in cold blood--Seraiah the chief priest (who was the father of Ezra as appears, Ezra vii.
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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
16 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 |
| הַסִּירֹ֨ת | hasirot | the pots | H5518 → | 34 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַיָּעִ֜ים | haiyaim | the shovels | H3257 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹת | hamzamerot | the snuffers | H4212 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַכַּפּ֗וֹת | hakapot | the pans | H3709 → | 192 times |
| וְאֵ֨ת | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| כְּלֵ֧י | kelei | [the] articles of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת | hanechoshet | <the> bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־ | yesharetu- | people served | H8334 → | 97 times |
| בָ֖ם | vam | with them | ||
| לָקָֽחוּ׃ | lakachu | they took | H3947 → | 966 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַסִּירֹ֨תthe pots
hasirotH5518 →34 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַיָּעִ֜יםthe shovels
haiyaimH3257 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹתthe snuffers
hamzamerotH4212 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַכַּפּ֗וֹתthe pans
hakapotH3709 →192 times
וְאֵ֨תand <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
כְּלֵ֧י[the] articles of
keleiH3627 →325 times
הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת<the> bronze
hanechoshetH5178 →140 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־people served
yesharetu-H8334 →97 times
בָ֖םwith them
vam
לָקָֽחוּ׃they took
lakachuH3947 →966 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
Exodus 27:3Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 7:45
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
- 1 Chronicles 28:17
the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
- Jeremiah 52:18–20
They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
- 2 Chronicles 4:11
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
- 1 Kings 7:45
Through
Exodus 38:3He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
it leads to
- Exodus 27:3
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- 1 Samuel 2:13
or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
- Exodus 27:3
Through
2 Chronicles 24:14When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the…
it leads to
- Exodus 29:38–42
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- 1 Kings 7:50
the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors…
- Exodus 29:38–42
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.