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Isaiah 39:6
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Isaiah speaks to King Hezekiah immediately after Hezekiah showed his palace stores to Babylonian envoys. The declaration functions as a direct prophetic response to that specific moment of diplomatic exposure.
The words — The phrase יָמִים בָּאִים (yamim ba'im) translates literally as "days are coming," establishing an unavoidable timeline. The verb וְנִשָּׂא (ve-nisa) means "and it will be carried off," specifying the physical removal of the palace contents.
The thread — The forced transfer of Judah's wealth to Babylon appears in the historical records of 2 Kings 24:13 and 2 Kings 25:13, where Chaldean troops strip the royal and temple treasuries. Jeremiah 20:5 echoes the same mechanism of divine judgment through the confiscation of royal valuables.
Why it lands — The text states that stored resources will be completely removed when God declares their departure. It requires a reader to acknowledge that human accumulation offers no protection against a sovereign decree.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 25:13 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 20:5 I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off 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.
- 2 Kings 20:17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
- Jeremiah 27:21 Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
- Jeremiah 52:17 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.