Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 24:7
Came not — In this king's days. He could not now come to protect the king of Judah, being scarce able to defend his own kingdom.
Came not — In this king's days. He could not now come to protect the king of Judah, being scarce able to defend his own kingdom.
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 c...
Neco, from the year of the battle of Carchemish, confined himself to his own country and made no efforts to recover Syria or Judaea....
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 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...
_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...
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 J...
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...
_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 kin...
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 RIVER OF EGYPT] see on 1 Kings 8:65....
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...
AND THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT AGAIN ANY MORE... — The verse indicates the posture of political affairs at the time when Jehoiachin succeeded his father. Necho had been deprived by Nebuchadnezzar of a...
וְ לֹֽא ־הֹסִ֥יף עֹוד֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָ
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 PRICE OF INNOCENT BLOOD 2 Kings 24:1 Note the entail of Manasseh's sin. He had lived, had been forgiven, and had died years before, but Judah was irretrievably implicated in his sins. The poison...
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...
_Egypt, at least from the eastern mouth of the Nile, at Damietta, to the Euphrates. Nechao had conquered all those countries: but now he was driven into his ancient territories. After some time he att...
I pray the Reader to observe the hand of God in all this. Evil men are but instruments for the accomplishment of the divine will. Judah must be removed, as Israel had been before. It is, for the most...
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 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 Jehoshap...
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 Zede...
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. Ver. 7. _For...
_The king of Egypt came not again out of his_ own _land_ In this king's days. He could not now come to protect the king of Judah, being scarce able to defend his own kingdom....
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...
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land, after the decisive defeat on the Euphrates; FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE RIVER EUPHRATES ALL THAT P...
THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM...
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...
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 agains...
THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT AGAIN, to wit, in this king's days; nor until Zedekiah's time, JEREMIAH 37:6,7; nor to any purpose. He could not now come out to protect the king of Judah, being scarce able...
2 Kings 24:7 king H4428 Egypt H4714 come H3318 (H8800) land H776 anymore H3254 (H8689) king H4428 Babylon...
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...
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...
1 Kings 4:21; Genesis 15:18; Isaiah 27:12; Jeremiah 37:5; Jeremiah