2 Kings 25:18 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 25:18

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

KJV

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,.... The sagan, or deputy priest, who officiated for the high priest, when by any means he was rendered unfit and incapable; so Joseph, the son of Ellem, as Josephus (x) relates, officiated for Matthias, when defiled with a nocturnal pollution; and seven days before the day of atonement they always substituted one under the high priest, lest anything of this kind should happen to him (y).

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּ֣ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
רַב־	rav-	[the] chief of	H7227 →
טַבָּחִ֗ים	ta.ba.Chim	[the] bodyguards	H2876 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׂרָיָה֙	se.ra.Yah	Seraiah	H8304 →
כֹּהֵ֣ן	ko.Hen	[the] priest of	H3548 →
הָרֹ֔אשׁ	ha.Rosh	the head	H7218 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
צְפַנְיָ֖הוּ	tze.fan.Ya.hu	Zephaniah	H6846 →
כֹּהֵ֣ן	ko.Hen	a priest	H3548 →
מִשְׁנֶ֑ה	mish.Neh	second	H4932 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	[the] three	H7969 →
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י	sho.me.Rei	[the] keepers of	H8104 →
הַסַּֽף׃	ha.Saf	the threshold	H5592 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 21:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
leads to
- Jeremiah 37:3
  Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 29:25
  this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 52:24
  The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Kings 25:18–21
  The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 38:1
  Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:
Through
Ezra 7:1
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
leads to
- Nehemiah 2:1
  Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad…
- 1 Chronicles 6:4–14
  Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,
Through
Jeremiah 52:24
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
leads to
- Jeremiah 35:4
  and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the…

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