2 Kings 24:17-25:30 NIV

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 24:17

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead ,.... The third son of Josiah, 1 Chronicles 3:15 . and changed his name to Zedekiah ; for the same reason the king of Egypt changed the name of Eliakim, 2 Kings 23:34 to signify his subjection to him; though some think it was to put him in mind of the justice of God, as the name signifies, that would overtake him, should he be treacherous to him, and rebel against him; so the Jewish Midrash. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 24:17

Made Mattaniah his father ' s brother king in his stead - He was the son of Josiah, and brother to Jehoiakim. Changed his name to Zedekiah - See the note on 2 Kings 23:34 . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 24:17

Mattaniah, son of Josiah and brother of Jehoahaz, but thirteen years his junior, adopted a name significant of the blessings promised by Jeremiah to the reign of a king whose name should be “Yahweh, our righteousness” Jeremiah 23:5-8. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 24:17

2 Kings 24:17. And changed his name to Zedekiah That he might admonish him of (what his name signifies) the justice of God, which had so severely punished Jehoiakim for his rebellion; and would no less certainly overtake him, if he should be guilty of the same perfidiousness. 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 24:17

changed his name. See note on 2 Kings 23:34 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 24:17

17-19. the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in his stead—Adhering to his former policy of maintaining a show of monarchy, Nebuchadnezzar appointed the third and youngest son of Josiah ( :-), full brother of Jehoahaz, and uncle of the captive Jehoiachin. But, according to the custom of conquerors, who changed the names of the great men they took captives in war, in token of their supremacy, he gave him the new name of Zedekiah—that is, "The righteous of God." This being... 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