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2 Kings 24 Bible study: As the LORD had said
The king of Babylon carried Jerusalem away, but the chapter says whose word it was: the bands came "according to the LORD’s word" (24:2), and the treasures went "as the LORD had said" (24:13), the word Isaiah gave Hezekiah (20:17). And Matthew counts Jesus' line by the exile to Babylon: "from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations" (Matthew 1:17).
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“He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD had said.”
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What's really going on
"At the commandment of the LORD"
"In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him" (24:1). The next verse says who sent what came after: "The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon" (24:2) (tap bands). These bands come in Jehoiakim's days; the siege of Jerusalem comes later in the chapter (24:10-11), and the city's fall in the next (25:1-10). The chapter says why the bands came: "according to the LORD’s word which he spoke by his servants the prophets" (24:2). In Manasseh's days "The LORD spoke by his servants the prophets" (21:10): "I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies" (21:14). Then the chapter says it again in its own voice: "Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah" (24:3) (tap commandment).
Where it leads to Jesus
The exile to Babylon, in Jesus' line
2 Kings 24:15leads toMatthew 1:17
"He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon" (24:15), and "He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon" (24:15). Matthew's "book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David" (Matthew 1:1) counts its generations by the exile to Babylon: "from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations" (Matthew 1:17). The verses before place Jechoniah "at the time of the exile to Babylon" (Matthew 1:11); 2 Kings spells the king Jehoiachin, and the book of Jeremiah names the king Nebuchadnezzar carried away "Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah" (Jeremiah 24:1). Matthew doesn't quote 2 Kings 24; the exile this chapter tells (24:14-16) is set beside his words here, with nothing more claimed.
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- The innocent blood, and no pardon
- "As the LORD had said"
- "No one remained except the poorest"
- "Out of his sight"
- Two kings renamed
- The same days in Chronicles and Jeremiah
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- 12 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
גָּלָהgalahsay ga-LAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "uncover, remove", and for the causative form, "carry away into exile, take into exile". Strong's: "to denude", and "by implication, to exile". The verb that told Israel's end, when the king of Assyria "carried Israel away to Assyria" (17:6), now comes for Judah: "He carried away all Jerusalem" (24:14), and "He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon" (24:15). 2 Kings uses the verb fourteen times; after this chapter it comes twice more, both in chapter 25 (25:11, 25:21).
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2 Kings 24 Bible study questions
- 1The treasures were carried off "as the LORD had said" (24:13), a word given to Hezekiah before Manasseh's long reign (20:17, 21:1). How does it change the way you hear God's promises and warnings, knowing he keeps his word even when it takes a long time?
- 2The treasures, the king, the princes, the mighty men and the craftsmen were all carried away, and "No one remained except the poorest people of the land" (24:13-15). If the things you lean on most were taken away, what would you still have?
- 3Manasseh had died years before (21:18), yet the chapter names "the innocent blood that he shed" (24:4). What do you make of that?
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