John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt came not any more out of his land ,.... To receive the tribute he imposed on the land of Judah, or to help the kings there of, Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin; not till the times of Zedekiah, and then was obliged to retire, without giving any assistance, Jeremiah 37:7 the reason follows: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt ; all that lay between the river Nile, or the Rhinocolura, and... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 24:1-7
We have here the first mention of a name which makes a great figure both in the histories and in the prophecies of the Old Testament; it is that of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kgs. 24:1), that head of gold. He was a potent prince, and one that was the terror of the mighty in the land of the living; and yet his name would not have been known in sacred writ if he had not been employed in the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews. I. He made Jehoiakim his tributary and... read more