King James Version
2 Kings 25:21 in the King James Version says “And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of thei...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 25 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.”
2 Kings 25:21 · KJV
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: officer: or, eunuch were in: Heb. saw the king's face principal: or, scribe of the captain of the host
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“was carried away”
H1540to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
“So Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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