2 Kings 24:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ And he carried away captive from Jerusalem all the chiefs and mighty men of valour, ten thousand captives, with all the carpenters and mechanics, so that there were none left but the poor of the land.

¹⁹ Then the Ziphites went up from the wilderness to Saul, on the mount, and said, Behold doth not David hide himself near us at Messara, at the straits by Kaina, on mount Echala, which is to the right of Jessamon? ²⁰ Now therefore every thing answereth the king's desire to induce him to come down. Come down to us. He is shut into the king's hands. ²¹ Thereupon Saul said to them, Blessed are you of the Lord; for you have cared for me. ²² Go, I pray you, and make ready, and examine his haunt, whether there be any trace of him there lately, where you mentioned. Perhaps he will practise wiles.

¹⁶ and the mighty men of the country, and all the men of the army, amounting to seven thousand, and the carpenters and mechanics amounting to a thousand. All these were valiant men fit for war. These the king of Babylon carried away captives to Babylon.

¹² But he left some of the poor of the land for vine dressers and husbandmen.

⁹ Jechonias was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, ¹⁰ and at the return of the year, Nabuchodonosar sent and brought him to Babylon, together with the most precious utensils of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias, his father's brother, king over Juda and Jerusalem.

¹ "Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When they shall no more say, "As the Lord liveth who brought up the house of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, " but, "As the Lord liveth who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries whither he had driven them and reestablished them in their own land" the Lord shewed me two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda and the chiefs and the artisans and the prisoners of war and the rich men from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. ² The one was a basket of very fine figs, such as are first ripe; and the other was a basket of very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. ³ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? ⁴ And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad so bad, that they cannot be eaten. ⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Like these good figs so will I acknowledge for good those banished Jews whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

² After the departure of king Jechonias and of the queen and the chamberlains and of every nobleman and prisoner of war and artificer from Jerusalem [I sent] to Babylon

¹⁰ [Omitted]

⁷ Now when all the generals of the army in the country, both they and their men heard that the king of Babylon had set Godolias over the land, and had committed to him the men and their wives whom he had not removed to Babylon,

¹⁶ But the chief cook left the remains of the people for vine dressers and husbandmen.

¹ In the thirtieth year, and fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was among the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened and I saw the visions of God. ² On the fifth of that month [this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Jechonias]

¹⁴ that it shall be a weak kingdom and never be independent; that he will keep this covenant with him and that it shall stand.