2 Kings 25 (NET)

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2 Kings 25:1¹So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 52:4-11 1 Chr 6:15 Isa 29:3 Jer 34:1-6 Jer 43:10 2 Chr 36:17-21 2 Kgs 24:1 2 Kgs 24:10 Dan 4:1-18 Ezek 21:22-24

2 Kings 25:2²The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

2 Kings 25:3³By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:52-53 Ezek 14:21 Ezek 5:12 Ezek 7:15 Jer 38:2 Jer 52:6 Lam 4:4-10 Lev 26:26 Ezek 4:9-17 Ezek 5:10

2 Kings 25:4⁴The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls, which is near the king’s garden. (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the rift valley.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 33:21 2 Kgs 25:5 Deut 28:25 Deut 32:24-25 Deut 32:30 Ezek 12:12 Jer 39:2-7 Jer 5:10 Jer 52:6-11 Lev 26:17

2 Kings 25:5⁵But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the rift valley plains of Jericho, and his entire army deserted him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 2:14-16 Isa 30:16 Jer 24:8 Jer 39:5 Jer 52:8

2 Kings 25:6⁶They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:33 Jer 34:21-22 2 Chr 33:11 Ezek 17:20-21 Ezek 21:25-27 Jer 21:7 Jer 32:4 Jer 38:23 Jer 52:9 Lam 4:19-20

2 Kings 25:7⁷Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:4-5 2 Chr 33:11 2 Chr 36:6 Deut 28:34 Ezek 12:13-16 Ezek 17:16-20 Ezek 7:27 Gen 21:16 Gen 44:34 Jer 22:30

2 Kings 25:8⁸On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 52:12-16 2 Kgs 24:12 2 Kgs 25:27 Jer 39:8-14 Jer 40:1-4 Lam 4:12 Zech 8:19

2 Kings 25:9⁹He burned down the Lord ’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 2:5 Ps 74:3-7 1 Kgs 9:8 2 Chr 36:19 Mic 3:12 Ps 79:1 Acts 6:13-14 Isa 64:10-11 Jer 34:22 Jer 37:10

2 Kings 25:10¹⁰The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 1:3 Jer 39:8 Jer 5:10 Jer 52:14-23

2 Kings 25:11¹¹Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:20 Ezek 12:15-16 Ezek 22:15-16 Ezek 5:2 Jer 15:1-2 Jer 39:9 Jer 52:12

2 Kings 25:12¹²But he left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 24:14 Jer 40:7 Ezek 33:24 Jer 39:10 Jer 52:16

2 Kings 25:13¹³The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord ’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” They took the bronze to Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:18 1 Kgs 7:15 2 Kgs 20:17 Jer 52:17-20 Lam 1:10 1 Kgs 7:23-45 2 Chr 4:12-16 2 Chr 4:2-6 Exod 27:3 Jer 27:19-22

2 Kings 25:14¹⁴They also took the pots, shovels, trimming shears, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 27:3 1 Kgs 7:47-50 2 Chr 24:14 2 Chr 4:20-22 Exod 38:3

2 Kings 25:15¹⁵The captain of the royal guard took the golden and silver censers and basins.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 5:2-3 1 Kgs 7:48-51 2 Chr 24:14 Exod 37:23 Ezra 1:9-11 Num 7:13-14

2 Kings 25:16¹⁶The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord ’s temple—including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” and the movable stands—was too heavy to be weighed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:47

2 Kings 25:17¹⁷Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was about 4½ feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:15-22 Jer 52:21-23

2 Kings 25:18¹⁸The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 6:14 Ezra 7:1 Jer 21:1 Jer 29:25 Jer 29:29 Jer 52:24 2 Kgs 25:24-26

2 Kings 25:19¹⁹From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five of the king’s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Esth 1:14

2 Kings 25:20²⁰Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:33 Jer 52:26-27 Lam 4:16

2 Kings 25:21²¹The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:27 Deut 28:64 2 Kgs 17:20 Amos 5:27 Deut 28:36 Deut 4:26 Ezek 12:25-28 Ezek 24:14 Jer 24:9-10 Jer 25:9-11

2 Kings 25:22²²Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 39:14 2 Chr 34:20 2 Kgs 22:12 Jer 26:24 Jer 41:2 2 Kgs 25:25 Jer 40:5-12

2 Kings 25:23²³All the officers of the Judahite army and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 40:7-9 Jer 40:11-12 Josh 18:26

2 Kings 25:24²⁴Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 14:11 2 Sam 19:23 Ezek 33:24-29 Jer 40:9-10 Jer 43:6

2 Kings 25:25²⁵But in the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 7:5 Zech 8:19 Jer 40:15-41:15 2 Kgs 11:1

2 Kings 25:26²⁶Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 43:4-7 Jer 41:16-18 Jer 42:14-22

2 Kings 25:27²⁷In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 40:20 Jer 52:31-34 2 Kgs 24:12 Gen 40:13 Prov 21:1 2 Kgs 24:15 Jer 24:5-6

2 Kings 25:28²⁸He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 2:37 Jer 27:6-11 Dan 5:18-19

2 Kings 25:29²⁹Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 9:7 Isa 61:3 Gen 41:42 2 Kgs 24:12 Esth 4:4 Esth 8:15 Luke 15:22 Zech 3:4 Gen 41:14