2 Kings 25:20
New International Version
Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

New Living Translation
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

English Standard Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Berean Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

King James Bible
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

New King James Version
So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

New American Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

NASB 1995
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

NASB 1977
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Amplified Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Christian Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

American Standard Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Contemporary English Version
Nebuzaradan led them all to Riblah

English Revised Version
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Good News Translation
Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah

International Standard Version
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them to the king of Babylon at Riblah,

Majority Standard Bible
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

NET Bible
Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

New Heart English Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

World English Bible
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners takes them, and causes them to go to the king of Babylon, to Libnah,

Young's Literal Translation
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah,

Smith's Literal Translation
And Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, will take them and bring them to the king of Babel to Riblah:
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
These Nabuzardan the general of the army took away, and carried them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Taking them, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

New American Bible
The captain of the guard, Nebuzaradan, arrested these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and

New Revised Standard Version
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Diblath;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Nebuzaradan, General of the Guards, took them and he led them to the King of Babel at Deblath.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Captives Carried to Babylon
19Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city. 20Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 52:24-27
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers. / Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city. / Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ...

2 Kings 24:14-16
He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained. / Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. / The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.

Jeremiah 39:9-10
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. / But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

Jeremiah 40:1-4
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon. / The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place, / and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you. ...

2 Chronicles 36:17-20
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / 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. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. ...

Jeremiah 52:12-15
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. / He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. ...

Jeremiah 39:4-7
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah. / But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him. / There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah. ...

Lamentations 1:3-5
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. / The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish. / Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

Ezekiel 12:13
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

Ezekiel 17:20-21
I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me. / All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’

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.

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,

Luke 21:20-24
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ...

Acts 7:43
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Romans 11:7-10
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, / as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.” / And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

and brought.

Jeremiah 52:26,27
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah…

Lamentations 4:16
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

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2 Kings 25
1. Jerusalem is besieged.
4. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out.
8. Nebuzaradan defaces the city, exiles the remnant, except a few poor laborers;
13. and carries away the treasures.
18. The nobles are slain at Riblah.
22. Gedaliah, who was over those who remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt.
27. Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court.














Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
The name "Nebuzaradan" is of Babylonian origin, meaning "Nebo has given offspring." Nebo was a Babylonian deity associated with wisdom and writing. Nebuzaradan held a significant position as the "captain of the guard," indicating his role as a high-ranking military officer, likely the chief executioner or commander of the king's bodyguard. His presence in the narrative underscores the might and organization of the Babylonian empire, which God used as an instrument of judgment against Judah. Historically, this reflects the period of Babylonian dominance in the ancient Near East, a time when God's people faced the consequences of their disobedience.

took them
This phrase signifies the act of capturing or seizing, indicating the power and authority exercised by Nebuzaradan. The "them" refers to the remaining leaders and officials of Judah who were taken into exile. This act of taking is not just a physical relocation but also symbolizes the loss of freedom and the beginning of a period of suffering and reflection for the people of Judah. It serves as a poignant reminder of the consequences of turning away from God's commandments.

and brought them to the king of Babylon
The act of bringing these captives to the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, highlights the complete subjugation of Judah under Babylonian rule. Nebuchadnezzar, as the king, represents the earthly power and authority that God allowed to rise for His purposes. This transfer of captives is a fulfillment of prophetic warnings given by prophets like Jeremiah, who foretold the exile as a result of the nation's persistent idolatry and injustice.

at Riblah
Riblah was a strategic location in the land of Hamath, situated in modern-day Syria. It served as a military headquarters for Nebuchadnezzar during his campaigns in the region. The mention of Riblah is significant as it was the site where many decisions regarding the fate of Judah were made. Historically, Riblah's role as a military and administrative center underscores the thoroughness with which Babylon controlled its territories. Spiritually, it represents a place of judgment and decision, where the fate of the captured leaders was sealed.

Verse 20. - And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took those, and brought them to the King of Babylon to Riblah (see the comment on ver. 6). Two batches of prisoners seem to have been brought before Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah - first, the most important of all the captives, Zedekiah and his sons (vers. 6, 7); then, a month later, Seraiah the high priest, and the other persons enumerated in vers. 18 and 19. The remaining prisoners were no doubt brought also by Nebuzar-adan to Ribiah, but were not conducted into the presence of the king.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Nebuzaradan
נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן (nə·ḇū·zar·’ă·ḏān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5018: Nebuzaradan -- 'Nebo has given seed', a Babylonian general

the captain
רַב־ (raḇ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

of the guard
טַבָּחִ֑ים (ṭab·bā·ḥîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2876: A butcher, a lifeguardsman, a cook

took
וַיִּקַּ֣ח (way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

them
אֹתָ֔ם (’ō·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and brought
וַיֹּ֧לֶךְ (way·yō·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

them
אֹתָ֛ם (’ō·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

to
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

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

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

at Riblah.
רִבְלָֽתָה׃ (riḇ·lā·ṯāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7247: Riblah -- a city in Hamath, also one on southeast border of Israel


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