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列王纪下 25
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西底家背叛巴比伦王(A)

25 西底家作王第九年十月十日，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领他的全军来攻打耶路撒冷；他们在城外安营，又在四围筑垒攻城。 2 于是，城被围困，直到西底家王第十一年。

圣城沦陷，人民被掳(B)

3 四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，甚至那地的人民都断了粮食。 4 城终于被攻破了，所有的战士就在夜间从靠近王的花园的两墙中间的那门，逃跑出城。那时迦勒底人在四围攻城；他们就往亚拉巴的方向逃走。 5 迦勒底人的军队追赶王，在耶利哥的原野上把他追上了；他的全军都离开他四散了。 6 他们把王擒住，把他解到利比拉巴比伦王那里；他们就宣判他的罪。 7 他们又在西底家眼前杀了他的众子，并且把西底家的眼睛弄瞎，然后用铜炼锁住他，把他带到巴比伦去。

8 五月七日，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒第十九年，巴比伦王的大臣，护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷。 9 他放火焚烧耶和华的殿和王宫，以及耶路撒冷一切房屋；一切高大的房屋，他都放火烧了。 10 跟随护卫长的迦勒底人全军拆毁了耶路撒冷周围的城墙。 11 至于城中剩下的人民，和已经向巴比伦王投降的人，以及剩下的民众，护卫长尼布撒拉旦都掳了去。 12 至于那地最贫穷的人，护卫长把他们留下，去修理葡萄园和耕种田地。

圣殿被掠(C)

13 耶和华殿的铜柱，以及耶和华殿的铜座和铜海，迦勒底人都打碎了，把铜运到巴比伦去。 14 他们又把锅、铲子、烛剪、碟子和敬拜用的一切铜器都拿去了。 15 此外，火鼎和碗，无论是金的或是银的，护卫长都拿去了。 16 所罗门为耶和华殿所做的两根铜柱、一个铜海和十个铜座，这一切器皿的铜，重得无法可称。 17 铜柱每根高八公尺，柱上有铜柱头；柱头高一公尺三公寸，柱头四周有网子和石榴都是铜的；另一根柱子同样也有网子。

18 护卫长拿住祭司长西莱雅、副祭司长西番亚和三个守门的； 19 又从城里拿住一个管理军兵的官长，并且在城里搜获常见王面的五个人，和一个负责召募当地人民的军长书记，又在城中搜获六十个当地的人民。 20 护卫长尼布撒拉旦把他们拿住，带到利比拉巴比伦王那里。 21 巴比伦王击杀他们，在哈马地的利比拉把他们处死。这样，犹大人被掳，离开了他们的国土。

立基大利作省长(D)

22 至于在犹大地剩下来的人民，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒留下来的，巴比伦王委派沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子基大利管理他们。 23 众将领和他们的士兵，听见巴比伦王委派了基大利，他们就来到米斯巴去见基大利；其中有尼探雅的儿子以实玛利、加利亚的儿子约哈难、尼陀法人单户篾的儿子西莱雅、玛迦人的儿子雅撒尼亚，以及他们的士兵。 24 基大利向他们和他们的士兵起誓，又对他们说：“你们不必惧怕迦勒底的官员，只管住在这地，服事巴比伦王，就可以平安无事。”

基大利被杀(E)

25 但在七月的时候，王裔以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利，带了十个人和他一起，他们袭击基大利，把他杀死，和他一起在米斯巴的犹大人和迦勒底人，也被杀死。 26 因此，众民无论大小，以及众将领都起来逃往埃及去，因为他们惧怕迦勒底人。

巴比伦王善待约雅斤(F)

27 犹大王约雅斤被掳后第三十七年，就是巴比伦王以未．米罗达登基的那一年，十二月二十七日，他恩待（“恩待”原文作“使抬起头来”）犹大王约雅斤，把他从狱中领出来， 28 并且安慰他，使他的地位高过和他一起在巴比伦的众王。 29 又换下他的囚衣，赐他终生常在王面前吃饭。 30 他的生活费用，在他一生的年日中，每日不断由王供应。

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2 Kungaboken 25
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Jerusalem faller

25 Sidkia gjorde uppror mot kungen i Babel. På tionde dagen i den tionde månaden av Sidkias nionde regeringsår[a] kom den babyloniske kungen Nebukadnessar med hela sin här till Jerusalem och belägrade staden. De byggde en belägringsmur runt omkring den. 2 Staden var belägrad ända till kung Sidkias elfte regeringsår. 3 Men på nionde dagen i månaden[b] var hungersnöden så stor i staden att folket i landet inte hade något att äta. 4 Staden stormades och allt krigsfolket flydde under natten genom porten mellan de båda murarna, den port som ledde till den kungliga trädgården, medan kaldeerna låg runt omkring staden. Kungen tog vägen åt Hedmarken till.

5 Men kaldeernas här förföljde kungen och hann upp honom på Jerikos hedmarker, sedan hela hans här hade övergivit honom och skingrats. 6 De grep Sidkia och förde honom till den babyloniske kungen i Ribla. Där uttalades domen över honom. 7 Man avrättade Sidkias barn inför hans ögon, och på Sidkia själv stack man ut ögonen. Man fängslade honom med kopparkedjor och förde honom till Babel.

Templet blir förstört

8 På sjunde dagen i den femte månaden av den babyloniske kungen Nebukadnessars nittonde regeringsår,[c] kom den babyloniske kungens tjänare Nebusaradan, som var överste för drabanterna, till Jerusalem. 9 Han brände upp Herrens hus och det kungliga palatset. Alla hus i Jerusalem, alla de förnämas hus brände han upp i eld. 10 Murarna runt omkring Jerusalem bröts ner av hela den här av kaldeer som översten för drabanterna hade med sig. 11 Återstoden av folket - de som var kvar i staden och de överlöpare som hade gått över till kungen i Babel, liksom den övriga hopen - förde Nebusaradan, översten för drabanterna, bort i fångenskap. 12 Men av de fattigaste i landet lämnade översten för drabanterna kvar några att sköta vingårdarna och åkrarna.

13 Kopparpelarna i Herrens hus, bäckenställen och kopparhavet i Herrens hus slog kaldeerna sönder och förde kopparn till Babel. 14 Och askkärlen, skovlarna, knivarna, skålarna och alla kopparkärl som hade använts vid gudstjänsten tog de med sig. 15 Likaså tog översten för drabanterna fyrfaten och offerskålarna, allt som var av rent guld eller av rent silver. 16 Vad gäller de två pelarna, havet och bäckenställen, som Salomo hade låtit göra till Herrens hus, så kunde kopparn i alla dessa föremål inte vägas. 17 Arton alnar hög var den ena pelaren och ovanpå den var ett pelarhuvud av koppar. Pelarhuvudet var tre alnar högt och ett nätverk av granatäpplen fanns på pelarhuvudet runt omkring, alltsammans av koppar. Likadant var nätverket på den andra pelaren.

Juda rikes undergång

18 Översten för drabanterna tog översteprästen Seraja och Sefanja, prästen närmast under honom, likaså de tre som höll vakt vid ingången. 19 Och från staden tog han en hovman, den som var anförare för krigsfolket, och fem av kungens närmaste män som påträffades i staden, likaså överbefälhavarens sekreterare, som brukade skriva ut folket i landet till krigstjänst, och sextio andra män av landets folk som påträffades i staden. 20 Dessa tog Nebusaradan, översten för drabanterna, och förde dem till den babyloniske kungen i Ribla. 21 Och kungen i Babel lät avrätta dem där, i Ribla i Hamats land. Så blev Juda bortfört från sitt land.

Gedalja sätts över de kvarblivna i Juda

22 Men över det folk som blev kvar i Juda land, det folk som Nebukadnessar, kungen i Babel, lät bli kvar, satte han Gedalja, son till Ahikam, son till Safan. 23 När alla krigsbefälhavare tillsammans med sina män fick höra att kungen i Babel hade satt Gedalja över landet, kom de till Gedalja i Mispa, nämligen Ismael, Netanjas son, Johanan, Kareas son, netofatiten Seraja, Tanhumets son, och Jaasanja, maakatitens son, med sina män. 24 Gedalja gav dem och deras män sin ed och sade till dem: "Frukta inte för kaldeernas tjänare. Stanna kvar i landet och tjäna kungen i Babel så skall det gå er väl."

25 Men i sjunde månaden kom Ismael, son till Netanja, son till Elisama av kunglig börd, och hade med sig tio män. De slog ihjäl Gedalja, likaså de judar och kaldeer som var hos honom i Mispa. 26 Då bröt allt folket upp, från den minste till den störste, tillsammans med härförarna och begav sig till Egypten. De fruktade nämligen för kaldeerna.

Jojakin befrias ur fängelset

27 Men i det trettiosjunde året sedan Jojakin, Juda kung, hade blivit bortförd i fångenskap, i tolfte månaden, på tjugosjunde dagen i månaden,[d] tog Evil-Merodak, kungen i Babel - samma år han blev kung - Jojakin, Juda kung, till nåder och förde honom ut ur fängelset. 28 Han talade vänligt med honom och gav honom främsta platsen bland de kungar som var hos honom i Babel. 29 Han fick lägga av sin fångdräkt och ständigt äta vid kungens bord så länge han levde. 30 Ett fast underhåll fick han från kungen, visst för varje dag, så länge han levde.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kungaboken 25:1 15 januari år 587 f. Kr.
  2. 2 Kungaboken 25:3 nionde dagen i månaden 18 juli 586 f. Kr. Se not till Jer 52:6.
  3. 2 Kungaboken 25:8 14 augusti 586 f. Kr.
  4. 2 Kungaboken 25:27 22 mars 561 f. Kr.
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列王纪下 25
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25 西底迦执政第九年十月十日，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军攻打耶路撒冷，在城外安营，修筑围城的高台。 2 城一直被围困到西底迦执政第十一年。 3 那年四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，百姓无粮可吃。 4 城被攻破，城里的所有士兵便在夜间穿过御花园，从两城墙中间的门逃往亚拉巴。当时迦勒底人仍四面包围着城。 5 迦勒底军队追赶西底迦，在耶利哥平原追上了他，他的军队都四散而逃。 6 迦勒底人擒住西底迦，把他押到利比拉见巴比伦王，在那里审判他。 7 巴比伦王在西底迦面前杀了他的众子，又剜去他的双眼，把他用铜链锁着押往巴比伦。

圣殿被毁

8 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒执政第十九年五月七日，他的臣仆——护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷， 9 放火焚烧耶和华的殿、王宫及城内所有的房屋。他烧毁了所有重要建筑。 10 他率领的迦勒底军队拆毁了耶路撒冷四围的城墙。 11 护卫长尼布撒拉旦掳去城里剩下的百姓、投降巴比伦王的人以及其他人， 12 只留下一些最贫穷的人，让他们照料葡萄园、耕种田地。

13 迦勒底人打碎耶和华殿中的铜柱、盆座和铜海，把铜运往巴比伦， 14 并带走了盆、铲、蜡剪、碟子及一切献祭用的铜器。 15 护卫长还带走了火鼎、碗等一切金银器具。

16 所罗门为耶和华的殿所造的两根铜柱、一个铜海和一些盆座，用的铜多得无法计算。 17 铜柱高八米，柱顶有柱冠，高一点三五米。柱冠周围装饰着铜网和铜石榴。两根柱子都一样。

18 护卫长尼布撒拉旦掳走祭司长西莱雅、副祭司长西番亚和三名殿门守卫， 19 还从城中拿住一名统管士兵的将领、王的五个亲信、一名负责招兵的书记和六十名平民。 20 护卫长尼布撒拉旦把他们带到利比拉去见巴比伦王， 21 巴比伦王在那里处死了他们。犹大人就这样被掳去，离开了家园。

基大利做犹大省长

22 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒任命基大利治理犹大的余民。基大利是沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子。 23 犹大众将领和他们的下属听到巴比伦王委任基大利治理犹大的消息后，便都到米斯巴见基大利。他们是尼探雅的儿子以实玛利、加利亚的儿子约哈难、尼陀法人单户篾的儿子西莱雅、玛迦人雅撒尼亚。 24 基大利向他们和他们的下属发誓，说：“你们不用害怕那些迦勒底官员。你们住在这地方服侍巴比伦王，就会平安无事。” 25 七月，王室后裔以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利带着十个人在米斯巴刺杀了基大利以及跟他一起的犹大人和迦勒底人。 26 因为害怕迦勒底人报复，犹大众人不论贵贱，都和众将领一起逃往埃及。

约雅斤获释

27 巴比伦王以未·米罗达在他执政的元年十二月二十七日，即犹大王约雅斤被掳后第三十七年，施恩释放了约雅斤， 28 并好言相待，使他的地位高过被掳到巴比伦的其他各王。 29 约雅斤脱去了囚衣，终生与巴比伦王一起吃饭。 30 在他有生之年，巴比伦王供应他每天的需用。

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2 Kings 25
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25 1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside[a] 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.[b] 2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month[c] the famine in the city was so severe the residents[d] had no food. 4 The enemy broke through the city walls,[e] and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night.[f] They went through the gate between the two walls, which is near the king’s garden.[g] (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the rift valley.[h] 5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the rift valley plains of Jericho,[i] and his entire army deserted him. 6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah,[j] where he[k] passed sentence on him. 7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch.[l] The king of Babylon[m] then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

8 On the seventh[n] day of the fifth month,[o] in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,[p] who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.[q] 10 The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan, 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.[r] 12 But he[s] left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

13 The 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.”[t] They took the bronze to Babylon. 14 They also took the pots, shovels,[u] trimming shears,[v] pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.[w] 15 The captain of the royal guard took the golden and silver censers[x] and basins. 16 The 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,”[y] and the movable stands—was too heavy to be weighed. 17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet[z] high. The bronze top of one pillar was about 4½ feet[aa] high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers. 19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five[ab] of the king’s advisers[ac] who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens[ad] for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed[ae] at Riblah in the territory[af] of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

Gedaliah Appointed Governor

22 Now 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.[ag] 23 All the officers of the Judahite army[ah] 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. 24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety.[ai] 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.” 25 But in the seventh month[aj] Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family,[ak] came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah,[al] as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah. 26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for[am] Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

Jehoiachin in Babylon

27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh[an] day of the twelfth month,[ao] King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned[ap] King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him[aq] from prison. 28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than[ar] the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 Jehoiachin[as] took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. 30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.[at]

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:1 tn Or “against.”
  2. 2 Kings 25:1 sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).
  3. 2 Kings 25:3 tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.
  4. 2 Kings 25:3 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
  5. 2 Kings 25:4 tn Heb “the city was breached.”
  6. 2 Kings 25:4 tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.
  7. 2 Kings 25:4 sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the City of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.
  8. 2 Kings 25:4 sn The rift valley (עֲרָבָה, ʿarabah) extends northward of the Dead Sea past Galilee and southward to the Gulf of Aqaba. Here the southern part of the Jordan Valley is in view with the intention to escape across the Jordan river to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.
  9. 2 Kings 25:5 sn The rift valley plains of Jericho refer to the parts of the Jordan Valley in the vicinity of Jericho (see HALOT 880 s.v. עֲרָבָה). There the terrain is fairly level and slopes gently down to the Jordan, a descent of about 450 feet over five miles. Many translations render this as “the plains of Jericho” (ESV, NASB, NIV, KJV). See the note at Num 22:1.
  10. 2 Kings 25:6 sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.
  11. 2 Kings 25:6 tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.
  12. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
  13. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  14. 2 Kings 25:8 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
  15. 2 Kings 25:8 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  16. 2 Kings 25:8 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
  17. 2 Kings 25:9 tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”
  18. 2 Kings 25:11 tc The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן (hehamon) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן (heʾamon). See Jeremiah 52:15.
  19. 2 Kings 25:12 tn Heb “the captain of the royal guard.” However, the subject is clear from the preceding and contemporary English style would normally avoid repeating the proper name and title.
  20. 2 Kings 25:13 tn Heb “the bronze pillars that were in the Lord’s house and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the Lord’s house the Babylonians broke.”sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
  21. 2 Kings 25:14 sn These shovels were used to clean the altar.
  22. 2 Kings 25:14 sn These were used to trim the wicks.
  23. 2 Kings 25:14 tn Heb “with which they served [or, ‘fulfilled their duty’].”
  24. 2 Kings 25:15 sn These held the embers used for the incense offerings.
  25. 2 Kings 25:16 tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (veha) on וְהַבָּקָר (vehabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vehammekhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.
  26. 2 Kings 25:17 tn Heb “18 cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about 18 inches (45 cm) long.
  27. 2 Kings 25:17 tn Heb “3 cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”
  28. 2 Kings 25:19 tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”
  29. 2 Kings 25:19 tn Heb “five men seeing the king’s face.”
  30. 2 Kings 25:19 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
  31. 2 Kings 25:21 tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”
  32. 2 Kings 25:21 tn Heb “land.”
  33. 2 Kings 25:22 tn Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.”
  34. 2 Kings 25:23 tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  35. 2 Kings 25:24 tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  36. 2 Kings 25:25 sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).
  37. 2 Kings 25:25 tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”
  38. 2 Kings 25:25 tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”
  39. 2 Kings 25:26 tn Heb “arose and went to.”
  40. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
  41. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  42. 2 Kings 25:27 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
  43. 2 Kings 25:27 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
  44. 2 Kings 25:28 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”
  45. 2 Kings 25:29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  46. 2 Kings 25:30 tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (beyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.
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25 So in the ninth(A) year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar(B) king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works(C) all around it. 2 The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

3 By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(D) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 4 Then the city wall was broken through,(E) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[b] were surrounding(F) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[c] 5 but the Babylonian[d] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,(G) 6 and he was captured.(H)

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,(I) where sentence was pronounced on him. 7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.(J)

8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He set fire(K) to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.(L) 10 The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls(M) around Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile(N) the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.(O) 12 But the commander left behind some of the poorest people(P) of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

13 The Babylonians broke(Q) up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes(R) and all the bronze articles(S) used in the temple service. 15 The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.(T)

16 The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed. 17 Each pillar(U) was eighteen cubits[e] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits[f] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.

18 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah(V) the chief priest, Zephaniah(W) the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.(X) 19 Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 There at Riblah,(Y) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.(Z)

So Judah went into captivity,(AA) away from her land.(AB)

22 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah(AC) son of Ahikam,(AD) the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah. 23 When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite, and their men. 24 Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”

25 In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated(AE) Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.(AF) 26 At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt(AG) for fear of the Babylonians.

Jehoiachin Released(AH)

27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin(AI) king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month. 28 He spoke kindly(AJ) to him and gave him a seat of honor(AK) higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.(AL) 30 Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.(AM)

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
  2. 2 Kings 25:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
  3. 2 Kings 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley
  4. 2 Kings 25:5 Or Chaldean; also in verses 10 and 24
  5. 2 Kings 25:17 That is, about 27 feet or about 8.1 meters
  6. 2 Kings 25:17 That is, about 4 1/2 feet or about 1.4 meters
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