2 Kings 24:2 Cross References - Rotherham

² And Yahweh sent against him troops of Chaldeans, and troops of Syrians, and troops of Moabites, and troops of the sons of Ammon, yea he sent them against Judah, to destroy him,––according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake through his servants the prophets.

⁴⁹ Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,––a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance,––who wilt not respect an elder, nor to the young, show favour;

²³ And he made for them a great feast, and, when they had eaten and drunk, he let them go, and they went their way unto their lord. So then, troops of Syrians came again, no more, into the land of Israel.

²⁰ And Elisha died, and they buried him,––now, troops of Moabites, used to enter the land, at the coming in of the year; ²¹ and it came to pass, as, they, were burying a man, that, lo! they saw a troop, so they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha,––and, as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he came to life again, and rose up on his feet.

¹⁷ Lo! days are coming, when all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have treasured up, unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon,––nothing shall be left, saith Yahweh;

¹² therefore––Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah,––that, whosoever heareth thereof, both his ears, will tingle; ¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem, the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab,––and will wipe out Jerusalem, as one wipeth out a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down; ¹⁴ And will abandon the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies,––and they shall become a prey and a plunder, to all their enemies:

²⁷ So Yahweh said: Even Judah, will I remove from my presence, as I have removed Israel,––and will reject this city, which I had chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house as to which I had said, My Name, shall be, there.

¹¹ So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,––and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.

¹⁷ Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.

¹¹ Then said I––How long, My Lord? And he said––Until the time that, Cities be wasted, through, having no inhabitant, And houses––through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation; ¹² And Yahweh have far removed, men,––And great, be the abandonment in the midst of the land.

¹⁷ Yahweh will bring, upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have not come, from the day when Ephraim departed from Judah,––even the king of Assyria.

⁵ They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,––Yahweh––with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.

⁹ Behold me! sending and fetching all the families of the North, Declareth Yahweh, and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, my servant, And I will bring them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations, round about,––And I will devote them to destruction, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and age–abiding desolations.

⁶ Then I will make this house like Shiloh,––And, this city, will I make a contempt, to all the nations of the earth.

²⁰ There was, however, a man, prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Urijah, son of Shemaiah, of Keriath–jearim,––who prophesied, against this city, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah.

²⁸ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;

¹¹ And so it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said,––Let us, even enter, Jerusalem, because of the force of the Chaldeans and because of the force of the Syrians: So have we dwelt in Jerusalem.

⁸ Then, set upon him, the nations round about, From the provinces,––And spread over him their net, In their pit, was he caught;

¹² Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,––and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.