2 Kings 25
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
A.M.
Jeremiah 34:8-10 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD…
2 Chronicles 36:17-21 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their …
Jeremiah 34:2,3-6 Thus said the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king …
Jeremiah 39:1-10 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, …
Jeremiah 52:4,5-11 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth …
Ezekiel 24:1,2-14 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of …
Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Kings 24:1,10 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim …
1 Chronicles 6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah …
Jeremiah 27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will …
Jeremiah 32:28 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into …
Jeremiah 43:10 And say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; …
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring on Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar …
Nebuchadrezzar.
Daniel 4:1-18 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that …
pitched.
Isaiah 29:3 And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against …
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come to the city to take it; and the …
Ezekiel 4:1-8 You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and …
Ezekiel 21:22-24 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, …
Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a trench …
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
A.M.
Jeremiah 39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth …
Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine …
Zechariah 8:19 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the …
the famine.
Leviticus 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake …
Deuteronomy 28:52,53 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced …
Lamentations 4:4-10 The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for …
Ezekiel 4:9-17 Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and …
Ezekiel 5:10,12 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and …
Ezekiel 7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he …
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus said the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore …
there was no.
Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah …
Jeremiah 38:2 Thus said the LORD, He that remains in this city shall die by the …
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
the city. This being the ninth day of the fourth month, corresponded to Wednesday, July
2 Kings 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity …
Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take …
Jeremiah 39:2,3 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth …
Jeremiah 52:6,7-11 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine …
Ezekiel 33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the …
fled.
Leviticus 26:17,36 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
Deuteronomy 32:24,25,30 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, …
Jeremiah 39:4-7 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, …
and the king.
2 Kings 25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook …
Ezekiel 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the …
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
and overtook.
Isaiah 30:16 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you …
Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely …
Jeremiah 39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah …
Jeremiah 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook …
Amos 2:14-16 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
they took.
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, said the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, …
Jeremiah 34:21,22 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand …
Jeremiah 38:23 So they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans: …
Lamentations 4:19,20 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued …
Ezekiel 17:20,21 And I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, …
Ezekiel 21:25-27 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when …
Riblah.
2 Kings 23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, …
Jeremiah 52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon …
gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake judgment with him.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
they slew.
Genesis 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as …
Genesis 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest …
Deuteronomy 28:34 So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus said the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall …
Jeremiah 39:6,7 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before …
Jeremiah 52:10,11 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: …
and put out. Heb. made blind. Thus were fulfilled the apparently contradictory prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel--that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, but Babylon he should not see, though he should die there.
Jeremiah 32:4,5 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans…
Jeremiah 34:3 And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, …
Ezekiel 12:13-16 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare: …
bound him.
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him …
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
2 Chronicles 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him …
Psalm 107:10,11 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in …
Psalm 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Ezekiel 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, …
Ezekiel 17:16-20 As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king …
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
in the fifth month. This answered to Wednesday, August
2 Kings 25:24 And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to them, Fear …
Jeremiah 52:12-14 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was …
Zechariah 8:19 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the …
the nineteenth.
2 Kings 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity …
2 Kings 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, …
Nebuzar-adan.
Jeremiah 39:9-14 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into …
Jeremiah 40:1-4 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan …
Jeremiah 52:12-16 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was …
Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world…
captain. or, chief marshal.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
he burnt.
1 Kings 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall …
2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, …
Psalm 74:3-7 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the …
Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …
Isaiah 64:10,11 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem …
Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do to this house, which is called by my name, wherein …
Jeremiah 26:9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house …
Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: …
Lamentations 2:7 The LORD has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he …
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem …
Luke 21:5,6 And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones …
Acts 6:13,14 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
the king's.
Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will command, said the LORD, and cause them to return to …
Jeremiah 37:8,10 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, …
Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the …
Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the …
Amos 2:5 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
brake.
Nehemiah 1:3 And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there …
Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take …
Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the …
Jeremiah 52:14-23 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of …
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
the rest.
Jeremiah 15:1,2 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, …
Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into …
Jeremiah 52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was …
Ezekiel 5:2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, …
Ezekiel 12:15,16 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them …
Ezekiel 22:15,16 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the …
fugitives. Heb. fallen away.
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
left of the poor.
2 Kings 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the …
Jeremiah 39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the …
Jeremiah 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, …
Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor …
Ezekiel 33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel …
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
the.
2 Kings 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which …
2 Chronicles 36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the …
Jeremiah 27:19-22 For thus said the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning …
Jeremiah 52:17-20 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and …
Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: …
pillars.
Exodus 27:3 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, …
1 Kings 7:15,27 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: …
2 Chronicles 4:12,13 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the capitals which …
bases.
1 Kings 7:23-45 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: …
2 Chronicles 4:2-6,14-16 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round …
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
the pots.
Exodus 27:3 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, …
Exodus 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, …
1 Kings 7:47-50 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding …
2 Chronicles 4:20-22 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn …
2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money …
And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
and such things.
Exodus 37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his firepans, of pure gold.
Numbers 7:13,14 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an …
1 Kings 7:48-51 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the …
2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money …
Ezra 1:9-11 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand …
Daniel 5:2,3 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine…
The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
one sea. Heb. the one sea. the brass.
1 Kings 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding …
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
one pillar.
1 Kings 7:15,16 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: …
Jeremiah 52:21-23 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen …
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
captain.
2 Kings 25:24,25,26 And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to them, Fear …
Seraiah.
1 Chronicles 6:14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
Ezra 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, …
Jeremiah 52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah …
Zephaniah.
Jeremiah 21:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah …
Jeremiah 29:25,29 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying…
the second priest. Called by the Jews, sagan, who officiated for the high priest in case of any temporary incapacity.
door. Heb. threshold.
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
officer. or, eunuch. were in the king's presence. Heb. saw the king's face.
Esther 1:14 And the next to him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, …
principal. or, scribe of the captain of the host.
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
and brought.
Jeremiah 52:26,27 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them …
Lamentations 4:16 The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: …
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.
the king. These men were put to death as accessories to Zedekiah's rebellion; for the king of Babylon had no doubt found that they had counselled him to revolt.
So Judah.
2 Kings 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, …
2 Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I …
Leviticus 26:33-35 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…
Deuteronomy 28:36,64 The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over …
Jeremiah 24:9,10 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the …
Jeremiah 25:9-11 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …
Ezekiel 12:25-28 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak …
Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; …
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, …
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
the people.
Jeremiah 40:5,6-12 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah …
Gedaliah.
2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of …
Jeremiah 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, …
Jeremiah 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him…
Ahikam.
2 Kings 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of …
2 Chronicles 34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and …
Jeremiah 26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah…
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
And when.
Jeremiah 40:7-9,11,12 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, …
Mizpah. There were several places of the name of Mizpah, or Mizpeh, and we do not certainly know which of them this was; but it is probable that it was that situated east of Jordan, in the mountains of Gilead, (
Genesis 31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when …
And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
sware to them.
2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, …
2 Samuel 19:23 Therefore the king said to Shimei, You shall not die. And the king swore to him.
Jeremiah 40:9,10 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and …
Ezekiel 33:24-29 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel …
and it shall be.
Jeremiah 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and …
Jeremiah 43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters…
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
seventh.
Zechariah 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, …
Zechariah 8:19 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the …
Ishmael.
Jeremiah 40:15,16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly …
Jeremiah 41:1-15 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of …
royal. Heb. of the kingdom.
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
Jeremiah 41:16-18 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the …
Jeremiah 42:14-22 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall …
Jeremiah 43:4-7 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, …
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
A.M.
Jeremiah 24:5,6 Thus said the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will …
Jeremiah 52:31-34 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity …
king of Babylon.
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …
lift up the head.
Genesis 40:13,20 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head, and restore …
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
kindly to him. Heb. good things with him. the throne.
Jeremiah 27:6-11 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar …
Daniel 2:37 You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given …
Daniel 5:18,19 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, …
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
changed.
2 Kings 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, …
Genesis 41:14,42 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily …
Esther 4:4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then …
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel …
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …
Zechariah 3:4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, …
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and …
he did eat bread.
2 Samuel 9:7 And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show you kindness …
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
a daily rate.
Nehemiah 11:23 For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain …
Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, …
Daniel 1:5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, …
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Acts 6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, …
all the days of his life.
Genesis 48:15,16 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham …
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE TWO BOOKS OF KINGS.
The events detailed in these books are highly interesting and important. The account of the wisdom, magnificence, and extended commerce of Solomon; the rash and impolitic conduct of Rehoboam; the disobedient prophet; the widow of Zarephath; Elijah and the prophets of Baal; Ben-hadad's pride and defeat; Elijah's assumption into heaven; Elisha's succession to his ministry, and the series of illustrious miracles he performed; the panic flight of the Syrians; the history of Ben-hadad and Hazael; and the predicted death of Ahab and Jezebel, and their children, are all pregnant with instruction, and have furnished themes for frequent dissertation. We perceive in these impressive histories the characters and qualities of men painted with the utmost fidelity, and the attributes of God displayed with great effect: we contemplate the exact accomplishment of God's promises and threatenings, the wisdom of his dispensations, and the mingled justice and mercy of his government. The particulars and circumstances are sketched out with a brief and lively description, and the imagination lingers with pleasure in filling up the striking outlines presented to our view. The authenticity of these books is attested by the prophecies they contain, which were subsequently fulfilled; by the citation of our Saviour and his Apostles; by their universal reception by the Jewish and Christian churches; and by the corresponding testimonies of profane authors and ancient sculptures.
