Thematic Bible




2 Kings 25:1 (show verse)

It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around.

2 Kings 25:2 (show verse)

So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of the king.

2 Kings 25:3 (show verse)

In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

2 Kings 25:4 (show verse)

Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war [entered] by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [were] against the city all around, so he left by the way of the Arabah.

2 Kings 25:5 (show verse)

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him.

2 Kings 25:6 (show verse)

So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and {they passed sentence on him}.

2 Kings 25:7 (show verse)

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him [to] Babylon.

2 Kings 25:8 (show verse)

In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came [to] Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:9 (show verse)

He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire.

2 Kings 25:10 (show verse)

He and all the army of [the] Chaldeans who [were with] the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around.

2 Kings 25:11 (show verse)

The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported.

2 Kings 25:12 (show verse)

But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling.

2 Kings 25:13 (show verse)

The bronze pillars which [were in] the temple of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:14 (show verse)

The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took.

2 Kings 25:15 (show verse)

The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took [for] the gold and whatever was silver, [for] the silver.

2 Kings 25:16 (show verse)

The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels.

2 Kings 25:17 (show verse)

The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital [being] three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar.

2 Kings 25:18 (show verse)

Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers.

2 Kings 25:19 (show verse)

From the city he took one court official who [was] chief officer over the men of war, five men {from the king's council} who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city.

2 Kings 25:20 (show verse)

Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

2 Kings 25:21 (show verse)

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land.

2 Kings 25:22 (show verse)

Now [as far as] the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them.

2 Kings 25:23 (show verse)

When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, [even] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

2 Kings 25:24 (show verse)

Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, "You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you."

2 Kings 25:25 (show verse)

But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

2 Kings 25:26 (show verse)

Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went [to] Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.

2 Kings 25:27 (show verse)

It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment.

2 Kings 25:28 (show verse)

He spoke {kindly} to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who [were] with him in Babylon.

2 Kings 25:29 (show verse)

So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.

2 Kings 25:30 (show verse)

His allowance was continually given to him from the king, {a portion every day} all the days of his life.