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2 Reis 24

ARC · Chapter 24/25

1Nos seus dias subiu Nabucodonosor, rei de Babylonia, e Joaquim ficou tres annos seu servo; depois se virou, e se rebellou contra elle.

2E Deus enviou contra elle as tro-* *pas dos chaldeos, e as tropas dos syros, e as tropas dos moabitas, e as tropas dos filhos d'Ammon; e as enviou contra Judah, para o destruir, conforme a palavra do Senhor, que fallara pelo ministerio de seus servos, os prophetas.

3E, na verdade, conforme o mandado do Senhor, assim succedeu a Judah, que a tirou de diante da sua face, por causa dos peccados de Manasseh, conforme tudo quanto fizera.

4Como tambem por causa do sangue innocente que derramou, enchendo a Jerusalem de sangue innocente: e por isso o Senhor não quiz perdoar.

5Ora o mais dos successos de Joaquim, e tudo quanto fez, porventura não está escripto no livro das chronicas dos reis de Judah?

6E Joaquim dormiu com seus paes: e Joachin, seu filho, reinou em seu logar.

7E o rei do Egypto nunca mais saiu da sua terra; porque o rei de Babylonia tomou tudo quanto era do rei do Egypto, desde o rio do Egypto até ao rio Euphrates.

8Tinha Joachin dezoito annos de edade quando começou a reinar, e reinou tres mezes em Jerusalem: e era o nome de sua mãe, Nehustha, filha de Elnathan, de Jerusalem.

9E fez o que parecia mal aos olhos do Senhor, conforme tudo quanto fizera seu pae.

10N'aquelle tempo subiram os servos de Nabucodonosor, rei de Babylonia, a Jerusalem, e a cidade foi cercada.

11Tambem veiu Nabucodonosor, rei de Babylonia, contra a cidade, quando já os seus servos a estavam cercando.

12Então saiu Joachin, rei de Judah, ao rei de Babylonia, elle, e sua mãe, e seus servos, e seus principes, e seus eunuchos; e o rei de Babylonia o tomou preso, no anno oitavo do seu reinado.

13E tirou d'ali todos os thesouros da casa do Senhor, e os thesouros da casa do rei: e fendeu todos os vasos d'oiro, que fizera Salomão, rei de Israel, no templo do Senhor, como o Senhor tinha dito.

14E transportou a toda a Jerusalem, como tambem a todos os principes, e a todos os homens valorosos, dez mil presos, e a todos os carpinteiros e ferreiros: ninguem ficou senão o povo pobre da terra.

15Assim transportou Joachin a Babylonia; como tambem a mãe do rei, e as mulheres do rei, e os seus eunuchos, e os poderosos da terra levou presos de Jerusalem a Babylonia.

16E todos os homens, valentes, até sete mil, e carpinteiros e ferreiros até mil, e todos os varões dextros na guerra, a estes o rei de Babylonia, levou presos para Babylonia.

17E o rei de Babylonia estabeleceu a Mathanias, seu tio, rei em seu logar: e lhe mudou o nome em Zedekias.

18Tinha Zedekias vinte e um annos de edade quando começou a reinar, e reinou onze annos em Jerusalem: e era o nome de sua mãe Hamutal, filha de Jeremias, de Libna.

19E fez o que parecia mal aos olhos do Senhor, conforme tudo quanto fizera Joaquim.

20Porque assim succedeu por causa da ira do Senhor contra Jerusalem, e contra Judah, até os rejeitar de diante da sua face: e Zedekias se rebellou contra o rei de Babylonia.

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Summary

After Josiah's death, a rapid succession of weak kings (Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin) rules Judah under growing Babylonian dominance. Nebuchadnezzar invades, plunders the temple, and deports thousands of people, including craftsmen and nobles, to Babylon, leaving only the poorest in the land.

Explanation

This chapter narrates the effective beginning of the Babylonian exile, fulfilling the prophetic warnings accumulated over generations. The rapid succession of weak, vassal kings, shifting loyalty between Egypt and Babylon, shows Judah's total loss of political independence. It is significant that the text attributes this destruction specifically to the sins of Manasseh, even decades after his death and despite Josiah's genuine reform — a severe reminder that the historical consequences of systematic sin can extend beyond the control of a single generation, even when that generation sincerely repents.

Fun facts

  • This first major deportation (597 BC) included the young prophet Ezekiel, who would receive his prophetic visions in Babylon itself, and likely also Daniel, who had been taken even earlier, showing how God was raising up prophetic voices even within the exile.
  • The 'Babylonian Chronicles,' cuneiform documents discovered in the 20th century, independently confirm the exact date of Nebuchadnezzar's capture of Jerusalem in 597 BC, matching the biblical account precisely.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 2 Reis 24:1Judah shifts from Assyria’s orbit into Babylon’s as regional power changes hands. Jehoiakim’s rebellion against Babylon, even as such a small kingdom, will cost his successor dearly right afterward.
  2. 2 Reis 24:2The Lord sends bands of Chaldeans, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Judah (the south) to destroy it, fulfilling what had already been announced through the prophets.
  3. 2 Reis 24:3This happens exactly by the Lord’s command, who removes Judah from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh.
  4. 2 Reis 24:4Also weighing against Judah is the innocent blood Manasseh shed, filling Jerusalem with it — a sin the Lord was no longer willing to forgive.
  5. 2 Reis 24:5The closing formula for Jehoiakim points to the chronicles of the kings of Judah (the southern kingdom).
  6. 2 Reis 24:6Jehoiakim dies, and his son, whose name is easy to confuse with his father’s — Jehoiachin — takes the throne in his place.
  7. 2 Reis 24:7The king of Egypt never again ventures out of his own land, because the king of Babylon takes everything that had been his, from the river of Egypt all the way to the Euphrates — showing Babylon’s total dominance of the region.
  8. 2 Reis 24:8The young Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and stayed only three months in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.
  9. 2 Reis 24:9Jehoiachin also does what is evil, following his own father’s example.
  10. 2 Reis 24:10Nebuchadnezzar’s officers come up against Jerusalem and besiege the city — the start of the first great Babylonian siege.
  11. 2 Reis 24:11Nebuchadnezzar himself arrives while his officers are already besieging the city.
  12. 2 Reis 24:12This is the first significant wave of Jewish exiles to Babylon, even before Jerusalem’s final destruction. Babylon systematically carried off craftsmen, warriors, and nobles, leaving behind only the poorest people of the land — a strategy to drain any local capacity for resistance.
  13. 2 Reis 24:13Nebuchadnezzar carries off all the treasures of the temple and the palace, and cuts into pieces the gold vessels Solomon had made, exactly as the Lord had already warned.
  14. 2 Reis 24:14He deports all of Jerusalem — officials, warriors, ten thousand captives, all the craftsmen and smiths — leaving behind only the poorest people of the land.
  15. 2 Reis 24:15Nebuchadnezzar takes Jehoiachin to Babylon, along with the king’s mother, the royal wives, the officials, and the powerful men of the land.
  16. 2 Reis 24:16He also takes seven thousand fighting men and a thousand craftsmen and smiths, all of them fit for combat.
  17. 2 Reis 24:17Changing a vassal king’s name was a symbolic act of submission, making it clear that the ruler only held the throne by permission of the Babylonian power. It is the same pattern Egypt had used earlier, in chapter 23, with his predecessor.
  18. 2 Reis 24:18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and stayed eleven years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.
  19. 2 Reis 24:19Zedekiah also does what is evil, repeating the pattern of Jehoiakim before him.
  20. 2 Reis 24:20All this happens because of the Lord’s anger against Jerusalem and Judah (the south), until He rejects them for good; it is in this context that Zedekiah rebels against Babylon, the trigger for the final siege.

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