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Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Passage Lookup: 2 Kings 24-25

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2 Kings 24:1
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During(a) Jehoiakim's reign,(b) Nebuchadnezzar(c) king of Babylon(d) attacked.(e) Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, and then he turned and rebelled against him.
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2 Kings 24:2
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The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean,(f) Moabite,(g) and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servants the prophets.(h)
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2 Kings 24:3
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Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord 's command to remove them from His sight.(i) It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,(j)
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2 Kings 24:4
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and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,(k) and the Lord would not forgive.
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2 Kings 24:5
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The rest of the events of Jehoiakim's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.(l)
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2 Kings 24:6
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Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.(m)
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2 Kings 24:7
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Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again,(n) for the king of Babylon took everything that belonged to the king of Egypt,(o) from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.(p)
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2 Kings 24:8
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Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.(q)
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2 Kings 24:9
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He did what was evil in the Lord 's sight as his father had done.
2 Kings 24:10
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At that time(r) the servants of Nebuchadnezzar(s) king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
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2 Kings 24:11
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Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
2 Kings 24:12
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Jehoiachin king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon.(t) So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
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2 Kings 24:13
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He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord 's temple and the treasures of the king's palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made(u) for the Lord 's sanctuary, just as God had predicted.(v)
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2 Kings 24:14
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Then he deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the fighting men,(w) 10,000 captives,(x) and all the craftsmen and metalsmiths.(y) Except for the poorest people of the land,(z) no one remained.
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2 Kings 24:15
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Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. Also, he took the king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.(aa)
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2 Kings 24:16
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The king of Babylon also brought captive into Babylon all 7,000 fighting men and 1,000 craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for war.
2 Kings 24:17
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Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's[a] uncle,[b] king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.(ab)
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2 Kings 24:18
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Zedekiah(ac) was 21 years old when he became king(ad) and reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal(ae) daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
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2 Kings 24:19
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Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord 's sight just as Jehoiakim had done.(af)
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2 Kings 24:20
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Because of the Lord 's anger,(ag) it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence.(ah) Then, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.(ai)
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2 Kings 25:1
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In the ninth year(a) of Zedekiah's reign,(b) on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army.(c) They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.(d)
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2 Kings 25:2
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The city was under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
2 Kings 25:3
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By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.(e)
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2 Kings 25:4
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Then the city was broken into,(f) and all the warriors fled(g) by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden,(h) even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,(i)
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2 Kings 25:5
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the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah's entire army was scattered from him.(j)
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2 Kings 25:6
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The Chaldeans seized the king(k) and brought him up to the king of Babylon(l) at Riblah,(m) and they passed sentence on him.
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2 Kings 25:7
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They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.(n)
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2 Kings 25:8
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On(o) the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.(p)
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2 Kings 25:9
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He burned the Lord 's temple,(q) the king's palace,(r) and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down(s) all the great houses.
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2 Kings 25:10
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The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down the walls(t) surrounding Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 25:11
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Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.(u)
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2 Kings 25:12
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But the commander of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.(v)
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2 Kings 25:13
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Now(w) the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars(x) of the Lord 's temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir,(y) which were in the Lord 's temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon.(z)
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2 Kings 25:14
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They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in temple service.(aa)
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2 Kings 25:15
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The commander of the guards took away the firepans and the sprinkling basins—whatever was gold or silver.(ab)
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2 Kings 25:16
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As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the water carts that Solomon had made for the Lord 's temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.(ac)
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2 Kings 25:17
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One pillar was 27 feet[a] tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet[b] high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.(ad)
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2 Kings 25:18
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The commander of the guards(ae) also took away Seraiah(af) the chief priest, Zephaniah(ag) the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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2 Kings 25:19
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He took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors from the city; five trusted royal aides[c](ah) found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people[d] who were found within the city.
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2 Kings 25:20
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Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.(ai)
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2 Kings 25:21
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The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.(aj)
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2 Kings 25:22
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah(ak) son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over the rest of the people he left in the land of Judah.(al)
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2 Kings 25:23
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When all the commanders of the armies—they and their men—heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.(am) The commanders included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.(an)
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2 Kings 25:24
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Gedaliah swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, "Don't be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you."(ao)
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2 Kings 25:25
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In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with 10 men and struck down Gedaliah, and he died. Also, they killed the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.(ap)
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2 Kings 25:26
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Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, and the commanders of the army, left and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.(aq)
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2 Kings 25:27
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On(ar) the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah's King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he pardoned King Jehoiachin(as) of Judah and released him from prison.(at)
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2 Kings 25:28
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He spoke kindly(au) to him and set his throne over the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.(av)
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2 Kings 25:29
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So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.(aw)
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2 Kings 25:30
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As for his allowance, a regular allowance(ax) was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.
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