Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (2 Kings, Chapter 1 to 25)

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2 Kings 25:13 (NLT)

13 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the LORD’s Temple, the bronze water carts, and the great bronze basin called the Sea, and they carried all the bronze away to Babylon.
 
2 Kings 25:16 (NLT)

16 The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the LORD’s Temple in the days of King Solomon.
 
2 Kings 25:19 (NLT) - 19 And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; five of the king’s personal advisers; the army commander’s chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.
 
2 Kings 25:21 (NLT) - 21 And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.
 
2 Kings 25:22 (NLT)
Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, as governor over the people he had left in Judah.
 
2 Kings 25:23 (NLT)
When all the army commanders and their men learned that the King of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they went to see him at Mizpah. These included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanumeth the Netophathite, Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, and all their men.
 
2 Kings 25:24 (NLT)
Gedaliah vowed to them that the Babylonian officials mince them no harm. "Do not be afraid of them. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and all will go well for you," he promised.
 
2 Kings 25:25 (NLT)
But in midautumn of that year, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men and killed Gedaliah. He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
 
2 Kings 25:26 (NLT)
Then all the people from Judah, from the least to the greatest, as well as the army commanders, fled in panic to Egypt for they we're afraid of what the Babylonians would do to them.
 
2 Kings 25:27 (NLT)
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.
 
2 Kings 25:28 (NLT)
He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled Kings in Babylon.
 
2 Kings 25:29 (NLT)
He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb I'm allowed him to dine in the King's presence for the rest of his life.
 
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