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2 Kings 25:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. "

2 Kings 25:21

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19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

21 The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.

23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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2 Kings 25:1

"In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it."

2 Kings 25:2

"So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah."

2 Kings 25:3

"On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land."

2 Kings 25:4

"Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah."

2 Kings 25:5

"But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him."

2 Kings 25:6

"Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him."

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