The Meaning of 2 Kings 24:11 Explained

2 Kings 24:11

KJV: And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.

YLT: and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon cometh against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it,

Darby: And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, while his servants were besieging it.

ASV: And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Nebuchadnezzar  king  of Babylon  came  against the city,  and his servants  did besiege  it. 

What does 2 Kings 24:11 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Kings 24:10-20 - The Captivity Begins
Jehoiachin followed the evil path of his predecessors. Again Jerusalem was besieged and Deuteronomy 28:48 began to be fulfilled. The ill-advised revolt of the young king ended in bitter disappointment, as Jeremiah had foretold, Jeremiah 22:24-25; and the final tragedy came on apace, in spite of the insistence of the false prophets that the sacred vessels of the Temple should be returned from Babylon, Jeremiah 27:16. Finally, a sad procession issued from the gate of the doomed city, and the king, his nobles and officials, presented themselves before the enemy, sitting on the ground, clothed in black, their faces covered in their mantles, Jeremiah 13:18. They were at once deported to Babylon with thousands more. The treasures in the Temple and the palace were rifled; and a cry of agony and astonishment arose from Jeremiah and the whole land. See Jeremiah 22:24; Jeremiah 22:28; some add Psalms 42:1-11; Psalms 43:1-5.
Zedekiah, Josiah's youngest son, enticed into a league with neighboring nations against the conqueror, brought upon himself and his people a yet more disastrous overthrow. How foolish man's wisdom becomes when he departs from the living God! "A wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed," James 1:6. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 24

1  Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him,
2  procures his own ruin
5  Jehoiachin succeeds him
7  The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon
8  Jehoiachin's evil reign
10  Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon
17  Zedekiah is made king, and reigns ill, unto the utter destruction of Judah

What do the individual words in 2 Kings 24:11 mean?

And came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon against the city and as his servants did besiege were besieging it
וַיָּבֹ֛א נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ־ בָּבֶ֖ל עַל־ הָעִ֑יר וַעֲבָדָ֖יו צָרִ֥ים עָלֶֽיהָ

וַיָּבֹ֛א  And  came 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר  Nebuchadnezzar 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר 
Sense: the great king of Babylon who captured Jerusalem and carried Judah captive.
מֶֽלֶךְ־  king 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מֶלֶךְ 
Sense: king.
בָּבֶ֖ל  of  Babylon 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: בָּבֶל  
Sense: Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates.
עַל־  against 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
הָעִ֑יר  the  city 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
וַעֲבָדָ֖יו  and  as  his  servants 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: עֶבֶד  
Sense: slave, servant.
צָרִ֥ים  did  besiege 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: צוּר 
Sense: to bind, besiege, confine, cramp.
עָלֶֽיהָ  were  besieging  it 
Parse: Preposition, third person feminine singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.

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