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Literal Standard Version

2 Kings 25:20

and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners takes them, and causes them to go to the king of Babylon, to Libnah,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hamath;   Nebuzaradan (Nebuzar-Adan);   Prophecy;   Riblah;   Seraiah;   Zephaniah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Zephaniah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Jeremiah;   Lamentations;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Nebuzaradan;   Riblah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Guard;   People of the Land;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Lamentations, Book of;   Nebuzaradan;   Riblah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Nebuzaradan ;   Riblah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nebuzar-A'dan;   Rib-Lah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezra;   Guard;   Nebuzaradan;   Riblah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ezra the Scribe;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Hebrew Names Version
Nevuzar'adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Bavel to Rivlah.
King James Version
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
English Standard Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New Century Version
Nebuzaradan, the commander, took all these people and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New English Translation
Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Amplified Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New American Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
World English Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the King of Babel to Riblah.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Berean Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Contemporary English Version
Nebuzaradan led them all to Riblah
Complete Jewish Bible
N'vuzar'adan the commander of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Bavel in Rivlah.
Darby Translation
And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Nebuzaradan took all these people to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the area of Hamath. The king of Babylon killed them there at Riblah. And the people of Judah were led away as prisoners from their land.
George Lamsa Translation
And Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Diblath;
Good News Translation
Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
Lexham English Bible
Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Literal Translation
And Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners took them and made them go to the king of Babylon, to Riblah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
these dyd Nabusaradan ye chefe captayne take, and broughte them to the kynge of Babilon vnto Reblatha.
American Standard Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Bible in Basic English
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Nebusaradan the chiefe captaine of the men of warre, toke these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Ribla.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
King James Version (1611)
And Nebuzaradan captaine of the guard tooke these, and brought them to the king of Babylon, to Riblah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.
English Revised Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche Nabuzardan, prince of the chyualrie, took, and ledde to the king of Babiloyne, in to Reblatha.
Update Bible Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
New King James Version
So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New Living Translation
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New Life Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the soldiers took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
New Revised Standard
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, took them, - and brought them unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah;
Douay-Rheims Bible
These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and carried them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
Revised Standard Version
And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Young's Literal Translation
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Contextual Overview

8And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it [is] the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, has come to Jerusalem, 9and he burns the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, indeed, he has burned every great house with fire; 10and all the forces of the Chaldeans, who [are] with the chief of the executioners, have broken down the walls of Jerusalem all around. 11And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners has removed; 12and of the poor of the land the chief of the executioners has left for vinedressers and for farmers. 13And the pillars of bronze that [are] in the house of YHWH, and the bases, and the sea of bronze, that [is] in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans have broken in pieces, and carry away their bronze to Babylon. 14And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they minister, they have taken; 15and the fire-pans, and the bowls that [are] wholly of silver, the chief of the executioners has taken. 16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of YHWH, there was no weighing of the bronze of all these vessels; 17eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and the capital on it [is] of bronze, and the height of the capital [is] three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates [are] on the capital all around—the whole [is] of bronze; and the second pillar has like these, with the net.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and brought: Jeremiah 52:26, Jeremiah 52:27, Lamentations 4:16

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 39:9 - Nebuzaradan

Cross-References

Genesis 22:23
and Bethuel has begotten Rebekah"; Milcah has borne these eight to Nahor, Abraham's brother;
Genesis 24:67
and Isaac brings her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he takes Rebekah, and she becomes his wife, and he loves her, and Isaac is comforted after [the death of] his mother.
Genesis 25:5
And Abraham gives all that he has to Isaac;
Genesis 25:6
and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham has, Abraham has given gifts, and sends them away from his son Isaac (in his being yet alive) eastward, to the east country.
Genesis 31:18
and leads all his livestock, and all his substance which he has acquired, the livestock of his getting, which he has acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:20
and Jacob deceives the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he has not declared to him that he is fleeing;
Genesis 31:24
And God comes to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and says to him, "Take heed to yourself lest you speak with Jacob from good to evil."
Genesis 35:9
And God appears to Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesses him;
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you have answered and said before your God YHWH, My father [is] a perishing Aramean! And he goes down to Egypt, and sojourns there with few men, and becomes a great, mighty, and populous nation there;
Luke 4:27
and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but—Naaman the Syrian."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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