2 Chronicles 36:6
New International Version
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

New Living Translation
Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and captured it, and he bound Jehoiakim in bronze chains and led him away to Babylon.

English Standard Version
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

King James Bible
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

New King James Version
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.

New American Standard Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

NASB 1995
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

NASB 1977
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to lead him off to Babylon.

Amplified Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze [chains] to take him to Babylon.

Christian Standard Bible
Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

American Standard Version
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Contemporary English Version
During Jehoiakim's rule, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah. He arrested Jehoiakim and put him in chains, and he sent him to the capital city of Babylon.

English Revised Version
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim and put him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Good News Translation
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah, captured Jehoiakim, and took him to Babylonia in chains.

International Standard Version
As a result, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him in bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Majority Standard Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

NET Bible
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

New Heart English Bible
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Webster's Bible Translation
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

World English Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come up against him, and binds him in bronze chains to take him away to Babylon.

Young's Literal Translation
against him hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come up, and bindeth him in brazen fetters to take him away to Babylon.

Smith's Literal Translation
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and he will bind him in fetters to cause him to go to Babel.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, ascended against him, and led him bound in chains to Babylon.

New American Bible
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

New Revised Standard Version
Against him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up, and bound him with fetters to take him to Babylon.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in chains to carry him to Babylon.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Nebukadnetsar King of Babel went up against him and bound him in chains to carry him to Babel.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah
5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 6Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. 7Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.…

Cross References
2 Kings 24:1-2
During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. / And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 25:1-9
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. / So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows: / “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. ...

Daniel 1:1-2
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. / 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.

Jeremiah 52:28-30
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; / in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem; / in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.

2 Kings 24:10-16
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. / And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it. / Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive. ...

Jeremiah 27:6-7
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him. / All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 29:1-2
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. / (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

Ezekiel 17:12-14
“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon. / He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land, / so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

Jeremiah 34:1-2
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities. / The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

Matthew 1:11-12
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. / After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

Jeremiah 22:24-28
“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off. / In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans. / I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die. ...

2 Kings 23:34-37
Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died. / So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth. / Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. ...

Jeremiah 36:29-31
You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’ / Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night. / I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

Ezekiel 19:9
With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

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2 Kings 24:1,2,5,6,13
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him…

Ezekiel 19:5-9
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion…

Daniel 1:1,2
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it…

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2 Chronicles 36
1. Jehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharaoh, and carried into Egypt
5. Jehoiakim reigning ill, is carried bound into Babylon
9. Jehoiachin succeeding, reigns ill, and is brought into Babylon
11. Zedekiah succeeding, reigns ill, despite the prophets, and rebels against Nebuchadnezzar
14. Jerusalem, for the sins of the priests and the people, is wholly destroyed
22. The proclamation of Cyrus














Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
The name "Nebuchadnezzar" is derived from the Akkadian "Nabû-kudurri-uṣur," meaning "Nabu, protect my heir." Nebuchadnezzar II was one of the most powerful monarchs of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 605 to 562 BC. His role in biblical history is significant, as he is often seen as an instrument of God's judgment against Judah. The title "king of Babylon" emphasizes his authority and the might of the Babylonian Empire, which was a dominant force in the ancient Near East. Historically, Babylon was known for its impressive architecture, including the famous Hanging Gardens, and its role as a center of learning and culture.

came up against him
This phrase indicates a military campaign or confrontation. In the context of ancient Near Eastern politics, such actions were common as empires sought to expand their territories and influence. The "him" refers to Jehoiakim, king of Judah, who had rebelled against Babylonian control. This rebellion was seen as a direct challenge to Nebuchadnezzar's authority, prompting his response. Theologically, this confrontation can be viewed as part of God's sovereign plan, allowing Babylon to rise as a tool of divine discipline for Judah's unfaithfulness.

and bound him in bronze shackles
The use of "bronze shackles" is significant, as bronze was a strong and durable metal, symbolizing the firm grip of Babylonian captivity. In the Hebrew context, being bound in shackles was a sign of subjugation and humiliation. This act of binding Jehoiakim signifies the loss of his freedom and autonomy, a physical manifestation of Judah's spiritual bondage due to their disobedience to God. The imagery of shackles also serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God's covenant.

to take him to Babylon
The phrase "to take him to Babylon" highlights the forced relocation of Jehoiakim, which was a common practice for conquering empires to prevent further rebellion and to assimilate the conquered peoples. Babylon, as the destination, represents exile and the center of the empire's power. Scripturally, Babylon often symbolizes a place of judgment and exile, yet it is also a place where God continues to work through His people, as seen in the lives of Daniel and others. This relocation marks a pivotal moment in Judah's history, as it begins the period of Babylonian captivity, fulfilling the prophetic warnings given by Jeremiah and other prophets.

Verse 6. - Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. Our mere allusions in this and the following verse to Nebuchadnezzar's relations to Jehoiakim and Judah are strange in comparison with the graphic account furnished by the parallel (2 Kings 24:1-6). The name is the same with Nabokodrosoros, is written in the Assyrian monuments Nebu-kuduri-utzur, and meaning, "Nebo (Isaiah 46:1), protector from ill," or "protects the crown." In Jeremiah (Jeremiah 49:28) we have the name written Nebuchadrezzar, as also in Ezekiel. Nebuchadnezzar, second King of Babylon, was the son of Nabopolassar, who took Nineveh B.C. 625, and reigned above forty years. Though we are here told he bound Jehoiakim in chains, to take him to Babylon, for some reason or other he did not carry out this intention, and Jehoiakim was put to death at Jerusalem (Jeremiah 12:18, 19; Jeremiah 36:30; Ezekiel 19:8, 9). The expedition of Nebuchadnezzar was B.C. 605-4 (Daniel 1:1; Jeremiah 25:1), and during it, his father dying, he succeeded to the throne.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Nebuchadnezzar
נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר (nə·ḇū·ḵaḏ·neṣ·ṣar)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5019: Nebuchadnezzar -- 'Nebo, protect the boundary', a Babylonian king

king
מֶ֣לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Babylon
בָּבֶ֑ל (bā·ḇel)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

came up
עָלָ֔ה (‘ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

against Jehoiakim
עָלָ֣יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and bound him
וַיַּֽאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙ (way·ya·’as·rê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

in bronze shackles
בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם (ban·ḥuš·ta·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - fd
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

to take
לְהֹלִיכ֖וֹ (lə·hō·lî·ḵōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

him to Babylon.
בָּבֶֽלָה׃ (bā·ḇe·lāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city


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