Fall and Captivity of Judah

2 Kings 25

1 Now it came to pass a in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 By the ninth day of the b fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then c the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And d the king 1 went by way of the 2 plain. 3 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. 6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon e at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him. 7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, f put 4 out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month, g on the seventh day of the month (which was h the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), i Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 j He burned the house of the LORD k and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, l he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard m broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around. 11 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive n the rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude. 12 But the captain of the guard o left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

13 p The bronze q pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and r the carts and s the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and t carried their bronze to Babylon. 14 They also took away u the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. 15 The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, v the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. 17 w The height of one pillar was 5 eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.

18 x And the captain of the guard took y Seraiah the chief priest, z Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. 19 He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, a five men of 6 the king's close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. 20 So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. b Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17
    Therefore He brought against them the king of t...
    Jeremiah 6:6
    For thus has the LORD of hosts said: "Cut down ...
    Jeremiah 34:2
    Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Go and ...
    Ezekiel 4:2
    Lay siege against it, build a siege wall agains...
    Ezekiel 24:1
    Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, o...
    Ezekiel 24:2
    Son of man, write down the name of the day, thi...
    Habakkuk 1:6
    For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bit...
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 6:24
    And it happened after this that BenHadad king o...
    2 Kings 6:25
    And there was a great famine in Samaria; and in...
    Isaiah 3:1
    For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes ...
    Jeremiah 39:2
    In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth...
    Lamentations 4:9
    Those slain by the sword are better off Than th...
    Lamentations 4:10
    The hands of the compassionate women Have cooke...
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:2
    In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:4 - 7
    So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain.
    Ezekiel 12:12
    And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.
  5. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:33
    Now Pharaoh Necho put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
    Jeremiah 52:9
    So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:7
    Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.
    Ezekiel 17:16
    As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke - with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 52:12
    Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month ( which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:12
    Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:9
    Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.
  10. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:13
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
    2 Chronicles 36:19
    Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
    Psalms 79:1
    O GOD, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
    Jeremiah 7:14
    Therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:8
    And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:27
    "But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." '"
  13. Cross References
    2 Kings 14:13
    Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and he went to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate - four hundred cubits.
    Nehemiah 1:3
    And they said to me, "The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:9
    Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.
    Jeremiah 5:19
    "And it will be when you say, 'Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us?' then you shall answer them, 'Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.'
    Jeremiah 39:9
    Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:14
    Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
    Jeremiah 39:10
    But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah the poor people, who had nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
    Jeremiah 40:7
    And when all the captains of the armies who were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and the poorest of the land who had not been carried away captive to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 52:16
    But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 52:17
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:15
    And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:27
    He also made ten carts of bronze; four cubits was the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:23
    And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
  20. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:17
    Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD.
    Jeremiah 27:19 - 22
    For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the Sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that remain in this city.
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 27:3
    Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
    1 Kings 7:45
    The pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
  22. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:47
    And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
  23. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:15 - 22
    And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.
    Jeremiah 52:21
    Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 39:9 - 13
    Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.
    Jeremiah 52:12 - 16
    Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month ( which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
    Jeremiah 52:24
    The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
  25. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:14
    Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak.
    Ezra 7:1
    Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah.
  26. Cross References
    Jeremiah 21:1
    The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying.
    Jeremiah 29:25
    Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying.
    Jeremiah 29:29
    Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
  27. Cross References
    Esther 1:14
    Those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom):
    Jeremiah 52:25
    He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:33
    I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
    Deuteronomy 28:36
    The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods - wood and stone.
    Deuteronomy 28:64
    Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known - wood and stone.
    2 Kings 23:27
    And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.'
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