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2 Chronicles 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The chronicler records Nebuchadnezzar’s actions during the Babylonian conquest of Judah, immediately after binding King Jehoiakim and before noting his son Jehoiachin’s succession.
The words — The text highlights וּמִכְלֵי בֵית יְהוָה (u./mi./ke.Lei beit/Yah.weh), meaning “and some of the articles of the house of Yahweh,” paired with הֵבִיא (he.Vi’), “he brought,” and בְּהֵיכָלוֹ (be./hei.kha.L/o), “in his palace/temple.”
The thread — This removal of temple vessels reappears in 2 Kings 24:13, which notes Nebuchadnezzar carried off all the treasures, and is later reversed in Ezra 1:7 when Cyrus returns them.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that sacred objects were physically displaced by imperial conquest, establishing a concrete historical baseline for subsequent restoration narratives.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 24:13 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
- Ezra 1:7 King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.
- Jeremiah 27:16 Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
- Jeremiah 28:3 Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.
- Daniel 1:2 And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
- Daniel 5:2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.