Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against…
2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
Ver. 11. And his servants did besiege it.] Till their king came himself in person, and entered the city, as Sulpitius hath it: but whereas he addeth, that at this time, urbem murosque ac templum solo stravit, this is utterly false; for Jehoiachin, by yielding up the city, as Jeremiah had advised him, preserved it; wherein he did the part of a good king, saith Josephus.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he carried out thence all the treasures of…
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house,.... The gates of the city being thrown open to him, he entered and plundered the temple, and the royal palace, and took from thence all the riches thereof:
and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said; Kg2 20:17 and so the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled. No more is said of these vessels in Ch2 36:10 than that they were brought to Babylon; and so Piscator renders the word here, "took", or "carried them away"; and certain it is that they were carried whole to Babylon, Dan 5:2 but as Hezekiah is said to cut off the doors of the temple, that is, strip or scrape off the gold of them, Kg2 18:16 so Nebuchadnezzar cut off from the temple, or stripped it of the golden vessels in it; of great part of them, the greater part thereof; for that there were some left is plain from Jer 27:18.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Nebuchadnezzar… came — After his generals had laid…
11. Nebuchadnezzar… came — After his generals had laid siege to the city, the king himself came to superintend the war in person.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Nebuchadnezzar came against [R.V. unto] the city, and…
11. Nebuchadnezzar came against [R.V. unto] the city, and his servants did besiege [R.V. were besieging] it] Here a preposition is expressed, and the latter clause of the verse indicates that the siege had begun before Nebuchadnezzar came thither in person.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Did besiege.—Were besieging. The king arrived after the…
(11) Did besiege.—Were besieging. The king arrived after the siege had begun.
Came against.—Came unto.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came against the city,…
And Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it; rather, his servants were besieging it. While the siege conducted by his generals was still going on, Nebuchadnezzar made his appearance in person before the walls, probably bringing with him an additional force, which made a successful resistance hopeless. A council of war was no doubt held under the new circumstances, and a surrender was decided on.
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