2 Kings 25 -Jehoiachin and Zedekiah Reign in Judah|Bible Podcast, David Alley,Peace Christian Church
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Show Notes
In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 25, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.
In 2 Kings Chapter 25 Nebuchadnezzar comes a third time to Jerusalem without patience and the city is utterly destroyed according to the words of Jeremiah and other prophets.
Why did it take 20 years for Nebuchadnazzer to destroy Jerusalem - why didn't he do it properly ten years earlier? Could it have been that Daniel was highly influential in Babylon? Or Did Daniel influence a later King Evil-Merodach to care for Jehoiachin?
This entire series of events is a clear fulfilment of Deuteronomy 28.
Josephus reports an interesting conjunction of prophecy. Jeremiah had told King Zedekiah that Nebuchadnezzar would carry him off to Babylon. And Ezekiel had predicted that Zedekiah would not see Babylon. Zedekiah had taken these apparent conflicting prophecies as a reason to disregard them. But they were both literally fulfilled.
Jerusalem’s fall occurred on Tish-B’av - the same day on the Jewish Calendar that Jerusalme was destroyed by the Roman Empire in AD70. This is known as the saddest day for Jews, and can hardly be a coincidence in the grand plan of God.
This chapter and book ends with a strange mention that Jehoiachin is cared for well by Nebuchadnezzar’s successor, Evil-Merodach. The question as to what would happen to the line of David is answered here - against all odds, the life of Jehoiachin is not only spared but blessed. This fact seems so unlikely and yet, we have cuneiform tables to confirm it, housed in the Pergamon museum in Berlin.