2 Kings 24:7

_AND THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT AGAIN ANY MORE OUT OF HIS LAND: FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE_ _ RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE RIVER EUPHRATES ALL THAT PERTAINED TO THE KING OF EGYPT._ The king of Egypt - i:e., Pharaoh-nechoh. FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE RIVER EUPHRATES ALL THAT PERTAINED TO THE KING OF EGYPT. He was defeated at Carchemish by the forces of the young king Nebuchadnezzar, who wrested from him all his acquisitions both in Northern, and Southern Syria (see Rawlinson's Herodotus, 2:, p. 247)....

1-7 If Jehoiakim had served the Lord, he had not been servant to Nebuchadnezzar. If he had been content with his servitude, and true to his word, his condition had been no worse; but, rebelling against Babylon, he plunged himself into more trouble. See what need nations have to lament the sins of their fathers, lest they smart for them. Threatenings will be fulfilled as certainly as promises, if the sinner's repentance prevent not....

Verse 2 Kings 24:7. _THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT AGAIN_] He was so crushed by the Babylonians that he was obliged to confine himself within the limits of his own states, and could no more attempt any conquests. The text tells us how much he had lost by the Babylonians. See on 2 Kings 24:1....

Neco, from the year of the battle of Carchemish, confined himself to his own country and made no efforts to recover Syria or Judaea....

AND THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT ANY MORE OUT OF HIS LAND,.... To receive the tribute he imposed on the land of Judah, or to help the kings there of, Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin; not till the times of Zedekiah, and then was obliged to retire, without giving any assistance, Jeremiah 37:7 the reason follows, FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE RIVER EUPHRATES, ALL THAT PERTAINED TO THE KING OF EGYPT; all that lay between the river Nile, or the Rhinocolura, and the river Euphrates so that he could not stir out of his dominions, which lay beyond....

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 Chronicles 36:8) 3. The first deportation to Babylon (2 Kings 24:11) 4. Zedekiah, the last king, and his rebellion (2 Kings 24:17) The foe of Judah, the chosen instrument of the Lord to execute His

2 KINGS 23:36 TO 2 KINGS 24:7. JEHOIAKIM. A fuller account of the reign is given by Jeremiah, who consistently opposed the king (see Jeremiah 25-27, 35 f., and especially 2 Kings 22:13). The external events of the time are as follows (p. 60). The Assyrian empire came to an end with the fall of Nineveh, about 606 B.C. In 605 B.C. the Egyptians were utterly defeated and driven out of Syria after the battle of Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2; see 2 Kings 24:7). Nebuchadrezzar succeeded his father in that year, when Jehoiakim transferred his allegiance

_the king of Egypt came not again any more_ The whole Asiatic possessions of Egypt had been conquered by the Babylonians, who now become the prominent heathen people in the Scripture story. _from the river_[R.V. BROOK] _of Egypt_ This is not the Nile, but the modern _Wadi El Arish_, a desert stream toward the border of Egypt. See note on 1 Kings 8:65 for its identification....

CAME NOT AGAIN ANY MORE— Or, _Came no more as yet. 2 Kings 24:8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old,_ &c.] There is a great difference between this passage and 2 Chronicles 36:9 where it is said that Jehoiachin was _eight years old_ when he began to reign. But both the Syriac and Arabic versions read _eighteen_ in that place in the Chronicles. Jehoiachin's succeeding his father in the throne of Judah may seem to disagree with the threat which the prophet denounces against his father, Jeremiah 36:30. _He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David;_ but as Jehoiachin's reign lasted little more than three months, during which time he was absolutely subject to the Chaldeans, a reign of s

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 was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. (37) And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD according to all which his fathers had done. (1) In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal three years; then he turned away and rebelled against him. (2) And the LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans and bands of Arameans and bands of Moabites and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets. (3) Surely on account of the word of the LORD it came on Judah to remove them from before His face for the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had d...