And in the ninth year of hisahis I.e., Zedekiah’s. reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar moved against Jerusalem with his whole army. He besieged it; and they built towers against it all around.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
בשנת
752
התשיעית
1195
למלכו
126
בחדש
314
העשירי
595
בעשור
578
לחדש
342
בא
3
נבכדנאצר
417
מלךבבל
124
הוא
12
וכלחילו
110
עלירושלם
686
ויחן
74
עליה
115
ויבנו
74
עליה
115
דיק
114
סביב
74
II Kings 25:2
Gematria: 3151
ותבאהעירבמצורעדעשתיעשרהשנהלמלךצדקיהו
The city continued in a state of siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותבא
409
העיר
285
במצור
338
עד
74
עשתי
780
עשרה
575
שנה
355
למלך
120
צדקיהו
215
II Kings 25:3
Gematria: 2380
בתשעהלחדשויחזקהרעבבעירולאהיהלחםלעםהארץ
By the ninth day [of the fourth month]b[of the fourth month] Cf. Jer. 52.6. the famine had become acute in the city; there was no food left for the common people.
Then [the wall of] the city was breached. All the soldiers [left the city] by night through the gate between the double walls, which is near the king’s garden—the Chaldeans were all around the city; and [the king] set out for the Arabah.cArabah Hoping to escape across the Jordan.
On the seventh day of the fifth month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, an officer of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
He burned the House of GOD, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down the house of every notable person.dthe house of every notable person Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישרף
596
אתביתיהוה
839
ואתבית
819
המלך
95
ואת
407
כלבתי
462
ירושלם
586
ואתכלבית
869
גדול
43
שרף
580
באש
303
II Kings 25:10
Gematria: 3311
ואתחומתירושלםסביבנתצוכלחילכשדיםאשררבטבחים
The entire Chaldean force that was with the chief of the guard tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side.
The remnant of the people that was left in the city, the defectors who had gone over to the king of Babylon—and the remnant of the population—were taken into exile by Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואת
407
יתר
610
העם
115
הנשארים
606
בעיר
282
ואתהנפלים
622
אשר
501
נפלו
166
עלהמלך
195
בבל
34
ואת
407
יתר
610
ההמון
106
הגלה
43
נבוזראדן
320
רבטבחים
271
II Kings 25:12
Gematria: 2004
ומדלתהארץהשאיררבטבחיםלכרמיםוליגבים
But some of the poorest in the land were left by the chief of the guards, to be vinedressers and field hands.
The Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of GOD, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of GOD; and they carried the bronze away to Babylon.
The one column was eighteen cubits high. It had a bronze capital above it; the height of the capital was three cubits, and there was a meshwork [decorated] with pomegranates about the capital, all made of bronze. And the like was true of the other column with its meshwork.
And from the city he took a eunuch who was in command of the soldiers; five of the royal privy councillors who were present in the city; the scribe of the army commander, who was in charge of mustering the people of the land; and sixty of the common people who were inside the city.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ומןהעיר
381
לקח
138
סריס
330
אחד
13
אשרהוא
513
פקיד
194
עלאנשי
461
המלחמה
128
וחמשה
359
אנשים
401
מראי
251
פניהמלך
235
אשר
501
נמצאו
187
בעיר
282
ואת
407
הספר
345
שר
500
הצבא
98
המצבא
138
אתעם
511
הארץ
296
וששים
656
איש
311
מעם
150
הארץ
296
הנמצאים
236
בעיר
282
II Kings 25:20
Gematria: 2524
ויקחאתםנבוזראדןרבטבחיםוילךאתםעלמלךבבלרבלתה
Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקח
124
אתם
441
נבוזראדן
320
רבטבחים
271
וילך
66
אתם
441
עלמלך
190
בבל
34
רבלתה
637
II Kings 25:21
Gematria: 2757
ויךאתםמלךבבלוימיתםברבלהבארץחמתויגליהודהמעלאדמתו
The king of Babylon had them struck down and put to death at Riblah, in the region of Hamath.Thus Judah was exiled from its land.
When the officers of the troops and their men heard that the king of Babylon had put Gedaliah in charge, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah with Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachite, together with their men.
Gedaliah reassured themereassured them Lit. “took an oath to them.” and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans.fof the servants of the Chaldeans Cf. Jer. 40.9 “to serve the Chaldeans.” Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”
In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, who was of royal descent, came with ten men, and they struck down Gedaliah and he died; [they also killed] the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were present with him at Mizpah.
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, took note ofgtook note of Lit. “raised the head of.” King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
בשלשים
682
ושבע
378
שנה
355
לגלות
469
יהויכין
111
מלךיהודה
120
בשנים
402
עשר
570
חדש
312
בעשרים
622
ושבעה
383
לחדש
342
נשא
351
אויל
47
מרדך
264
מלך
90
בבל
34
בשנת
752
מלכו
96
אתראש
902
יהויכין
111
מלךיהודה
120
מבית
452
כלא
51
II Kings 25:28
Gematria: 3310
וידבראתוטבותויתןאתכסאומעלכסאהמלכיםאשראתובבבל
He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a throne above those of other kings who were with him in Babylon.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
אתו
407
טבות
417
ויתן
466
אתכסאו
488
מעל
140
כסא
81
המלכים
145
אשר
501
אתו
407
בבבל
36
II Kings 25:29
Gematria: 1743
ושנאאתבגדיכלאוואכללחםתמידלפניוכלימיחייו
His prison garments were removed, and [Jehoiachin] received regular rations by his favor for the rest of his life.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ושנא
357
את
401
בגדי
19
כלאו
57
ואכל
57
לחם
78
תמיד
454
לפניו
176
כלימי
110
חייו
34
II Kings 25:30
Gematria: 3221
וארחתוארחתתמידנתנהלומאתהמלךדבריוםביומוכלימיחיו
A regular allotment of food was given him at the king’s behest—an allotment for each day—all the days of his life.