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2 Kings 25:11
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, executes the deportation of Jerusalem’s survivors immediately after the Chaldean army breaches the city walls. The words — יֶתֶר (Yeter) denotes the "remainder" or survivors, while נִשְׁאָרִים (nish'arim) specifies those who "remained" in the city before the final scattering. The thread — This deportation event parallels the exile account in 2 Chronicles 36:20 and the earlier record in Jeremiah 39:9. Why it lands — The text records the concrete fulfillment of Jerusalem’s destruction, requiring the reader to acknowledge the finality of the city’s fall and the reality of the survivors’ displacement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carry away.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
- Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
- Jeremiah 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 5:2 When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 12:15 And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 22:15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.