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2 Kings 25:21

2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 Kings 25:21 Almost all hope is gone in the summary statement, So Judah was taken into exile out of its land. But the land is still “its land,” holding out the promise of a future return.

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See also 2 Kings 25:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 25:21. _THE KING OF BABYLON SMOTE THEM_] He had, no doubt, found that these had counselled Zedekiah to revolt....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 36:17)_ 2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22) 3. J

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. FATE OF THE REMNANT. This again is more fully related in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:8 to Jeremiah 42:22), of which the passage before us is probably an abridgement. 2 Kings 25:8....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SO JUDAH WAS CARRIED AWAY. Thus ended the kingdom of Judah, as Jeremiah had predicted (Jeremiah 20:4). THEIR. his....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and slew them_[R.V. PUT THEM TO DEATH] _at Riblah_ The word is not the same as in verse 7, and the R.V. follows A.V. of Jeremiah 52:27. _So Judah was carried away out of their_[R.V. HIS] _land_ The A...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ So Judah was carried away out of their land. 'In the history of the J...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:21 land. (a-29) or 'from their soil.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SO JUDAH WAS CARRIED AWAY] The destruction of Jerusalem and the final deportation of its chief inhabitants took place in 586 b.c. The kingdom of Judah, like the kingdom of the ten tribes, now came to...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FALL OF JERUSALEM This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He marche...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE KING OF BABYLON SMOTE THEM ... — He was too irritated by the obstinacy of their defence to admire their bravery. SO JUDAH WAS CARRIED AWAY ... — This sentence evidently concludes the whole account...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֣ךְ אֹתָם֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֧ל וַ יְמִיתֵ֛ם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FALL OF JERUSALEM B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:1 "In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all nations." - Zechariah 12:3 "An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE TEMPLE DESPOILED 2 Kings 25:13 The Temple, after 420 years of varying fortune, was burned to the ground, and the remainder of its treasures carried off. A few years after, Nebuchadnezzar set up a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have the final account of Judah as a kingdom. So that from Joshua's days, in which it began to be formed, to the last of its kings, Zedeciah, it stood about 850 or 860 years. And the church's...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    2 Kings 25:18...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Brought them to the king of Babylon_ That he might dispose of them as he thought fit, they being not vulgar persons like those whom he had ordered to be carried captive or left in the land. _The king...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ierusalem is besieged. 4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out. 8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few poore labourers, into captiuitie, 13 Spoileth and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the king of Babylon smote them, for participating in the rebellion, AND SLEW THEM AT RIBLAH, IN THE LAND OF HAMATH, the Syrian province in the extreme northern part of Palestine. SO JUDAH WAS CARR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH (vv.1-21) In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the word of the Lord, t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-21 The city and temple were burnt, and, it is probable, the ark in it. By this, God showed how little he cares for the outward pomp of his worship, when the life and power of religion are neglected...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 25:21 king H4428 Babylon H894 struck H5221 (H8686) death H4191 (H8686) Riblah H7247 land H776 Hamath...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    3). THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEATH OF ITS LEADERS (2 KINGS 25:8). Kings began with a description of the building of the house of YHWH and of the king's house (1 Kings 5:1 to 1 Kings...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael, Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin. CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._ CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 17:20; 2 Kings 23:27; Amos 5:27; Deuteronomy 28:36;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Out of the land — This compleated their calamity, about eight hundred and sixty years after they were put in possession of it by Joshua....

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