Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (2 Kings, Chapter 1 to 25)

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:12 (NLT)
Then King Jehoiachin and the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians.
in the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:13 (NLT)
As the LORD said beforehand, Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the treasures from the LORD's Temple and the royal palace. He stripped away all the gold objects that King Solomon of Israel had placed in the temple.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:14 (NLT)
King Nebuchadnezzar took all of Jerusalem captive, including all of the commanders and the best of the soldiers, craftsmen, and artisans __10,000 in all. Only the poorest people were left in the land.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:15 (NLT)
Nebuchadnezzar led King Jehoiachin away as a captive to Babylon, along with the queen mother, his wives and officials, and all Jerusalem's elite.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:16 (NLT)
He also exiled 7, 000 of the best troops and 1,000 craftsmen and artisans, all of whom were strong and fit for war.

 

[Pastor Gary]

2 Kings 24:17 (NLT) - 17 Then the king of Babylon installed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s[c] uncle, as the next king, and he changed Mattaniah’s name to Zedekiah.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:18 (NLT)
Was twenty-one years old when he became king and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 24:19 (NLT)

19 But Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 24:20 (NLT)
These things happened because of the LORD's anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them into exile.

Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

 

[Pastor Gary]

2 Kings 25:1 (NLT) - 1 So on January 15, during the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:2 (NLT)

2 Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.

 

[Cosia]

2 Kings 25:3 (NLT)
BY July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:4 (NLT)

4 Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.[

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:5 (NLT)

5 But the Babylonian troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:6 (NLT)

6 They took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.

 

[Pastor Gary]

2 Kings 25:7 (NLT) - 7 They made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons. Then they gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:8 (NLT)

8 On August 14 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:9 (NLT)

9 He burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:10 (NLT)

10 Then he supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Kings 25:11 (NLT)

11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, then took as exiles the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had declared their allegiance to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.