What does 2 Kings 24:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged."
CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM - The cause and circumstances of this siege are equally obscure. Perhaps Nebuchadnezzar detected Jehoiachin in some attempt to open communications with Egypt....
2. JEHOIACHIN AND ZEDEKIAH: THE BEGINNING OF JUDAH'S CAPTIVITY CHAPTER 24 _ 1. Jehoiakim, Servant of Nebuchadnezzar, and His Death (2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6)_ 2. Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6; 2...
2 Kings 24:8. JEHOIACHIN AND THE FIRST CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH. The name of this king is also given as Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24) and Jeconiah (Jeremiah 29:2). Evidently Babylon's vengeance for his father's t...
THE SERVANTS OF. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint and Syriac, omit these words, and read "came up"....
_the servants of Nebuchadnezzar … came up_against [R.V. TO] _Jerusalem_ There is no preposition in the Hebrew, only the accusative of direction. On -servants" see note on 2 Kings 5:13....
III. THE REIGN AND REBELLION OF JEHOIAKIM 23:36-24:7 TRANSLATION (36) Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother...
_AT THAT TIME THE SERVANTS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND THE CITY WAS BESIEGED._ At that time - within three months after his accession to the throne; it was the sp...
JEHOIACHIN AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR This chapter recounts the reigns of Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, the invasion of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (who carried into captivity Jehoiachin and numbers...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 24 V1 While Jehoiakim was king, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to attack the country. Jehoiakim had to serve him...
AT THAT TIME. — In the spring of the year (2 Chronicles 36:10). Thenius infers from Jeremiah 13:19 (“the cities of the south land are shut up”), that Nebuchadnezzar drew a _cordon_ across that part of...
בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֔יא _עָל֗וּ_† עַבְדֵ֛י נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ ־בָּבֶ֖ל יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַ תָּבֹ֥א הָ...
JEHOIAKIM B.C. 608-597 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:1 "But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings," - RAPC 1Es 1:42 "W...
THE CAPTIVITY BEGINS 2 Kings 24:10 Jehoiachin followed the evil path of his predecessors. Again Jerusalem was besieged and Deuteronomy 28:48 began to be fulfilled. The ill-advised revolt of the young...
Jehoiakim became tributary to Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar. The continuity of evil made impossible any respite, and it is solemnly written, "The Lord would not pardon." In this connection the sins of...
_Came. Hebrew, "servants....he came." But several manuscripts are more accurate and grammatical, "they came." (Kennicott) (Haydock)_...
This may be really considered the close of the kingdom of Israel and Judah. For though there was a nominal king after Jehoiachim, yet as the king of Babylon made him king, he might be considered more...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
_THE GOD-FORSAKEN CITY_ ‘The city was besieged.’ 2 Kings 24:10 When wrong has been going on for some time it gathers a momentum, which gets beyond men’s power to control. It is like a carriage with...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious Jehosha...
AT THAT TIME,.... When Jehoiachin reigned: WHEN THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED; so it is in 2 Chronicles 36:10 or at the revolution of the year; which some take to be autumn, the beginning of the civil year wi...
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. Ver. 10. _At that time._] About the spring. 2Ch 36:10 Much about the same time was Cy...
_The servants of Nebuchadnezzar came up against Jerusalem_ Either, 1st, Because the people had made Jehoiachin king without his consent: or, 2d, Because he had some notice, or at least a suspicion, of...
1 Iehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procureth his owne ruine. 5 Iehoiachin succeedeth him. 7 The King of Egypt is vanquished by the King of Babylon. 8 Iehoiach...
THE REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN...
Pharaoh was not able to maintain his dominance over Judah, however, not that Judah was able to break it, but because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon displaced Pharaoh and took his place in making Jehoi...
WAS BESEIGED: _ Heb._ came into seige...
8-20 Jehoiachin reigned but three months, yet long enough to show that he justly smarted for his fathers' sins, for he trod in their steps. His uncle was intrusted with the government. This Zedekiah w...
Either, 1. Because the people had made Jehoiachin king without his consent. Or, 2. Because he had some notice, or at least a suspicion, of his intentions to rebel against him, and to join with Egypt...
2 Kings 24:10 time H6256 servants H5650 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 Babylon H894 up H5927 (H8804) Jerusalem H3389 city H5892 besieged H935 (H8799) H4692 At that time - Daniel 1:1-2 was besieged...
THE REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH 597 BC (2 KINGS 24:8). In typical fashion the prophetic author of Kings has not told us in detail about the closing years of Jehoiakim's life, except in so far as...
CONTENTS: Jehoikim tributary to Nebuchadnezzar. Reigns of Jehoikim, Jehoichin and Zedekiah. Deportation to Babylon. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: Time will not wear o...
_In his days Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came up._ WICKEDNESS, RETRIBUTION AND DIVINE CONTROL, AS REVEALED IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S INVASION OF JUDAH In glancing through these Chapter s there are two...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 24:8 JEHOIACHIN. Babylon’s withdrawal from Palestine in 601 B.C. turned out to be temporary. Jehoiakim’s rebellion brought the Babylonian army to the gates of JERUSALEM at the...
THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 24:1. IN HIS DAYS NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON—Nebuchadnezzar’s reign commenced in the fourth year of Jehoiakim’s. Hales...
And the LORD sent the bands of the Babylonians, and of the Syrians, and of the Moabites (2 Kings 24:2), And again now, the same kind of thing that happened to Israel; when the weakness of the nation w...
2 Kings 25:2; Daniel 1:1; Daniel 1:2...