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2 Kings 25:21

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There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

KJV

And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now the scripture was fulfilled, The Lord shall bring thee, and the king which thou shalt set over thee, into a nation which thou hast not known, Deut. xxviii. Sin kept their fathers forty years out of Canaan, and now turned them out. The Lord is known by those judgments which he executes, and makes good that word which he has spoken, Amos iii.

This site's exposition

took Seraiah the chief priest

on 2 Kings 25:18-21

Seraiah the chief priest is named as Jehozadak's father at 1 Chr 6:14-15, the priest whose son goes into captivity, and Ezra 7:1 traces Ezra's own priestly line back through this same Seraiah, so the generation that ends the kingdom is also the generation the return will be built from. Zephaniah the second priest is commonly read as the man Zedekiah twice sent to Jeremiah at Jer 21:1 and 37:3, a name that had already crossed the siege narrative before it reaches Riblah. All are slain there, and the chapter closes the formal kingdom in one sentence: so Judah was carried away out of their land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That it was the holy city, where was the testimony of Israel; but that glory has departed, for Solomon's temple is burnt to the ground (

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The king of Babylon smote them - He had, no doubt, found that these had counselled Zedekiah to revolt.
So Judah was carried away - The kingdom of the two tribes was at an end; and the task of the historian might seem to be accomplished. He still, however, desires to notice two things: (1) the fate of the remnant 2Ki 25:22-26 left in the land by Nebuzaradan; and (2) the fate of Johoiachin, who, of all those led into captivity, was the least to blame 2Ki 25:27-30.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיַּ֣ךְand he struck down

    vaiyakhH5221 →499 times

  • אֹתָם֩<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • מֶ֨לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶ֧לBabylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • וַיְמִיתֵ֛םand he put to death them

    vaymitemH4191 →839 times

  • בְּרִבְלָ֖הat Riblah

    berivlahH7247 →11 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • חֲמָ֑תHamath

    chamatH2574 →35 times

  • וַיִּ֥גֶלand it went into exile

    vaiyigelH1540 →186 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • מֵעַ֥לfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃land its

    ʾadmatoH127 →225 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 23:27For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”5 worksDeuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.5 works1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.4 works1 Chronicles 6:15Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.3 worksJeremiah 13:19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.3 worksLeviticus 26:33–35But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 17:20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.2 worksDeuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.2 worksJeremiah 24:9–10I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.2 worksAmos 5:27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.2 worksJeremiah 25:9–11behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.2 worksDeuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.2 worksEzekiel 12:25–28because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”2 worksEzekiel 24:14I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”2 worksJeremiah 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”2 worksZechariah 9:2and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.2 works1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,2 worksIsaiah 6:12until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.2 works

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

    Deuteronomy 4:26

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it,…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:1

      Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

    • Micah 6:2

      Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

    • Jeremiah 22:29

      O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

    • Jeremiah 2:12

      Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

    • Deuteronomy 30:18–19

      I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 28:64

    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:27–28

      Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

    • Leviticus 26:33

      But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

    • Deuteronomy 28:36

      The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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