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2 Kings 23:27
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The passage records God’s declaration of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem following the reign of Josiah. God speaks as the sovereign executing a prior warning against the provocation caused by Manasseh.
The words — The Hebrew אָסִיר ('a.Sir) translates literally to "I will remove," paired with מֵעַל פָּנַי (me.'Al pa.Na'i) to denote removal from God's presence. The particle גּם (gam) functions as "also," grammatically binding Judah’s fate to the earlier exile of Israel.
The thread — The text echoes God’s prior removal of Israel from His presence in 2 Kings 17:18 and 2 Kings 18:11. It also anticipates the measuring line and plumb line of judgment pronounced in 2 Kings 21:13.
Why it lands — The verse states that God will reject Jerusalem and its temple despite His prior choice and promise regarding His Name. It demands recognition that covenant privilege does not override divine justice when provocation persists.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 21:13 I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
- 2 Kings 17:18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,
- 2 Kings 17:20 So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
- 2 Kings 21:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Deuteronomy 29:27 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
- 1 Kings 8:29 May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- 1 Kings 9:3 And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Kings 21:7 Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.