CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE DYING DAYS OF JUDAH 2 Kings 23:28 to 2 Kings 25:30 The twenty-three years following the death of Josiah were the dying time of the kingdom of Judah. These were tragic days when petty politicians repeated foolish mistakes which drug the nation down to oblivion. In spite of t... [ Continue Reading ]
V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7 TRANSLATION (18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. (19) And he did evil in the eyes of the LOR... [ Continue Reading ]
VI. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS 25:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And in the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, it being the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard the servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem. ... [ Continue Reading ]
VII. THE AFTERMATH OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 25:18-30 Chapter 25 closes with a series of notices which are somewhat in the nature of an appendix. The author speaks here of (1) the execution of certain Jewish leaders (2 Kings 25:18-21); (2) the appointment and assassination of Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22... [ Continue Reading ]
B. THE APPOINTMENT AND ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH 25:22-26 TRANSLATION (22) As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan. (23) When all the captains of the armies heard, they and the m... [ Continue Reading ]
C. THE RELEASE OF KING JEHOIACHIN 25:27-30 TRANSLATION (27) And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in his accession year lifted up the head of Jeho... [ Continue Reading ]