2 Kings 24:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

Surely

Remove them

For the sins

2 Kings 21:2

Exodus 20:5

Bible References

Surely

Have I now come up without the Lord’s approval against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

Indeed the army of the Arameans came with a small number of men; yet the Lord delivered a very great army into their hands, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.

As he was talking with him, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has planned to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

Remove them

However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

It shall come about that as the Lord

delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.

For the sins

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,