2 Kings 25:22

And as for the people that were left in the land of Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon left, even over them he set Godolias son of Achicam son of Saphan.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And as for the people that remained 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, ruler.

In Context

21And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Æmath. So Juda was carried away from his land.

23And all the captains of the host, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had thus appointed Godolias, and they came to Godolias to Massephath, both Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Jona son of Careth, and Saraias, son of Thanamath the Netophathite, and Jezonias son of a Machathite, they and their men.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:12And the king commanded Chelcias the priest, and Achikam the son of Sapphan, and Achobor the son of Michaias, and Sapphan the scribe, and Asaias the king's servant, saying,

2 Chronicles 34:20And the king commanded Chelcias, and Achicam the son of Saphan, and Abdom the son of Michaias, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaia the servant of the king, saying,

Jeremiah 39:14Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

Jeremiah 40:7And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.

Jeremiah 41:2Thus has the Lord said; Go to Sedekias king of Juda, and thou shalt say to him, Thus has the Lord said, This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it, and shall burn it with fire:

Jeremiah 43:5And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord:

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 25:9-22

The Temple Destroyed. ( b. c. 588.) 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 9 And he burnt the house of the Lord , and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round… Read the whole commentary →

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