SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:12
Entonces salió Joaquín rey de Judá al rey de Babilonia, él, y su madre, y sus siervos, y sus príncipes, y sus eunucos; y lo prendió el rey de Babilonia en el octavo año de su reinado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 24:12
Verse 12. Jehoiachin-went out] He saw that it was useless to attempt to defend himself any longer; and he therefore surrendered himself, hoping to obtain better terms.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon , etc.] Not to fight with him, but to submit to him, and to surrender the city to him, and be at his mercy: he and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers ; the royal family, courtiers, and nobles: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign ; Of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, and which was the eighth of the first captivity, and from whence the seventy years’ captivity were reckoned.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-20 - Jehoiachin reigned but three months, yet long enough to show that he justly smarted for his fathers' sins, for he trod in their steps. Hi uncle was intrusted with the government. This Zedekiah was the last of the kings of Judah. Though the judgments of God upon the three king before him might have warned him, he did that which was evil, lik them. When those intrusted with the counsels of a nation act unwisely and against their true interest, we ought to notice the displeasure of God in it. It is for the sins of a people that God hides from them the things that belong to the public peace. And in fulfilling the secre purposes of his justice, the Lord needs only leave men to the blindnes of their own minds, or to the lusts of their own hearts. The gradua approach of Divine judgments affords sinners space for repentance, an believers leisure to prepare for meeting the calamity, while it show the obstinacy of those who will not forsake their sins __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויצא 3318 יהויכין 3078 מלך 4428 יהודה 3063 על 5921 מלך 4428 בבל 894 הוא 1931 ואמו 517 ועבדיו 5650 ושׂריו 8269 וסריסיו 5631 ויקח 3947 אתו 853 מלך 4428 בבל 894 בשׁנת 8141 שׁמנה 8083 למלכו׃ 4427
