2 Kings 25:8

6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon ^aat Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.

7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^aput out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month, ^aon the seventh day of the month (which was ^bthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), ^cNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9 ^aHe burned the house of the Lord ^band the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, ^che burned with fire.

10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^abroke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

11 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive ^athe rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

12 But the captain of the guard ^aleft some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

13 ^aThe bronze ^bpillars that were in the house of the Lord, and ^cthe carts and ^dthe bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ^ecarried their bronze to Babylon.

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2 Kings 25:8

The nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar - 586 BC, if we count from the real date of his accession (604 BC); but 587 BC, if, with the Jews, we regard him as beginning to reign when he was sent by his father to recover Syria and gained the battle of Carchemish (in 605 BC).

Captain of the guard - literally, "the chief of the executioners" Genesis 37:36.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 25:8:**

Isaiah 19:20
Jeremiah 9:10-22
Daniel 1:2
Hosea 8:14
Zechariah 1:12

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