GOD let loose against him the raiding bands of the Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites—letting them loose against Judah to destroy it, in accordance with the word that GOD had spoken through the prophets—God’s servants.
The king of Egypt did not venture out of his country again, for the king of Babylon had seized all the land that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Wadi of Egypt to the River Euphrates.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בןשמנה
447
עשרה
575
שנה
355
יהויכין
111
במלכו
98
ושלשה
641
חדשים
362
מלך
90
בירושלם
588
ושם
346
אמו
47
נחשתא
759
בתאלנתן
933
מירושלם
626
II Kings 24:9
Gematria: 1794
ויעשהרעבעינייהוהככלאשרעשהאביו
He did what was displeasing to GOD, just as his father had done.
Thereupon King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, and his courtiers, commanders, and officers, surrendered to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
He carried off from Jerusalembfrom Jerusalem Heb. “from there.” all the treasures of the House of GOD and the treasures of the royal palace; he stripped off all the golden decorations in the Temple of GOD—which King Solomon of Israel had made—as GOD had warned.
He exiled all of Jerusalem: all the commanders and all the warriors—ten thousand exiles—as well as all the artisans and smiths; only the poorest people in the land were left.
He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother and wives and officers and the notables of the land were brought as exiles from Jerusalem to Babylon.
All the able men, to the number of seven thousand—all of them warriors, trained for battle—and a thousand artisans and smiths were brought to Babylon as exiles by the king of Babylon.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואת
407
כלאנשי
411
החיל
53
שבעת
772
אלפים
161
והחרש
519
והמסגר
314
אלף
111
הכל
55
גבורים
261
עשי
380
מלחמה
123
ויביאם
69
מלךבבל
124
גולה
44
בבלה
39
II Kings 24:17
Gematria: 3094
וימלךמלךבבלאתמתניהדדותחתיוויסבאתשמוצדקיהופ
And the king of Babylon appointed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’scJehoiachin’s Heb. “his.” uncle, king in his place, changing his name to Zedekiah.
dFor the rest of this book cf. Jer. 39 and 52. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בןעשרים
672
ואחת
415
שנה
355
צדקיהו
215
במלכו
98
ואחת
415
עשרה
575
שנה
355
מלך
90
בירושלם
588
ושם
346
אמו
47
חמיטל
97
חמוטל
93
בתירמיהו
673
מלבנה
127
II Kings 24:19
Gematria: 1956
ויעשהרעבעינייהוהככלאשרעשהיהויקים
He did what was displeasing to GOD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah were a cause of anger for GOD, so thatewere a cause of anger for GOD, so that Meaning of Heb. uncertain. they were cast out from the divine presence.Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.