2 Kings 24:10-25:30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 24:8-20

This should have been the history of king Jehoiachin's reign, but, alas! it is only the history of king Jehoiachin's captivity, as it is called, Ezek. 1:2. He came to the crown, not to have the honour of wearing it, but the shame of losing it. Ideo tantum venerat, ut exiret?He came in only to go out. I. His reign was short and inconsiderable. He reigned but three months, and then was removed and carried captive to Babylon, as his father, it is likely, would have been if he had lived but so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 24:10

At that time ,.... When Jehoiachin reigned: when the year was expired ; so it is in 2 Chronicles 36:10 or at the revolution of the year; which some take to be autumn, the beginning of the civil year with the Jews; but rather it was the spring, the time when kings went out to battle, 2 Samuel 11:1 . the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem ; that is, his army, under proper generals and officers, and by his orders: and the city was besieged ; in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 24:10

Came up against Jerusalem - The cause and circumstances of this siege are equally obscure. Perhaps Nebuchadnezzar detected Jehoiachin in some attempt to open communications with Egypt. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 24:10

2 Kings 24:10. The servants of Nebuchadnezzar came up against Jerusalem Either, 1st, Because the people had made Jehoiachin king without his consent: or, 2d, Because he had some notice, or at least a suspicion, of his intentions to rebel and join with Egypt against him, as Zedekiah his successor did. But whatever was the second and immediate cause of it, the chief cause was God’s commandment, or the direction of his providence, as was said 2 Kings 24:3. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 24:1-17

Conquest by Babylon and captivity (24:1-17)In 605 BC the armies of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt in the famous Battle of Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2). This meant that Judah now came under the control of, and paid tribute to, Babylon. When the conquerors returned to Babylon, they took with them captives from the conquered countries, including some of the most capable and well educated young men they could find among the leading families of Jerusalem. One of these was the youth... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 24:10

the servants Of. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint and Syriac, omit these words, and read "came up". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 24:10

THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE FIRST DEPORTATION"At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it; and Jehoiakin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants; and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. And he carried out thence all the treasures... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 24:10

10-13. At that time—within three months after his accession to the throne. It was the spring of the year (2 Chronicles 36:10); so early did he indicate a feeling hostile to the interests of his Assyrian liege lord, by forming a league with Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar sent his generals to besiege Jerusalem, as Jeremiah had foretold (Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 34:20), and soon after he followed in person. Convinced of the hopelessness of making any effectual resistance, Jehoiachin, going to the camp of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 24:8-17

G. Jehoiachin’s Evil Reign 24:8-17Jehoiakim’s son Jehoiachin, whose other names were Jeconiah and Coniah, succeeded him on the throne but only reigned for three months (598-597 B.C.). When Nebuchadnezzar’s troops were besieging Jerusalem, the Babylonian king personally visited Judah’s capital, and Jehoiachin surrendered to him (2 Kings 24:12). The invasion fulfilled the Lord’s warning to Solomon about apostasy in 1 Kings 9:6-9. A large deportation of Judah’s population followed in 597 B.C. None... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 24:1-20

Jehoiachin and NebuchadnezzarThis chapter recounts the reigns of Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, the invasion of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (who carried into captivity Jehoiachin and numbers of the people), and the reign of Zedekiah.1. Nebuchadnezzar] called more accurately in Jeremiah 25:9 and elsewhere ’Nebuchadrezzar.’ He was the son of the Nabopolassar who conquered Nineveh (see on 2 Kings 23:29), and, as his father’s general, defeated the Egyptians in 605 at Carchemish on the... read more

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