2 Kings 24 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 24
Babylon subjugates Judah and deports the king
Verse 24:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up. Jehoiakim became his servant for three years, then turned and rebelled against him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:1 In his days Nabouchodonosor king of Babylon came up. Joakim became his slave for three years, then turned and broke faith with him.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both give three years of subjection followed by revolt; Greek expresses the breach as repudiating allegiance.
Verse 24:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:2 YHWH sent against him raiding bands of the Chaldeans, Aram, Moab, and the Ammonites. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to YHWH's word which He spoke through His servants the prophets.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:2 He sent against him the lightly equipped raiders of the Chaldeans, Syria, Moab, and the Ammonites. He sent them out in Judah's land to prevail, according to the Lord's word which He spoke through His servants the prophets.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek omits the explicit divine subject at the opening and changes destroy Judah to prevail. Its unnamed sender is not automatically identified with either the Lord or the Babylonian king. Both retain the prophetic-word explanation.
Verse 24:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:3 Surely this came upon Judah at YHWH's command, to remove it from His presence because of Manasseh's sins, according to everything he had done,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:3 Nevertheless, this came upon Judah because of the Lord's anger, to remove it from His presence because of Manasseh's sins, according to everything he had done.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew attributes the event to YHWH's mouth or command; Greek to the Lord's anger. Both connect the removal with Manasseh's sins.
Verse 24:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:4 and also because of the innocent blood he shed. He filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was unwilling to forgive.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:4 He also shed innocent blood and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was unwilling to be propitiated.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew forgiveness and Greek being propitiated frame the refusal differently without adding a remedy in either text.
Verse 24:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:5 The rest of Jehoiakim's acts and everything he did—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of Judah's kings?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:5 The rest of Joakim's acts and everything he did—look, are these not written in the book of the chronicles of Judah's kings?
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give the royal archival notice; Greek adds the attention marker look.
Verse 24:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:6 Jehoiakim lay down with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:6 Joakim lay down with his fathers, and his son Joakim became king in his place.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek uses Joakim for both father and successor, while Hebrew distinguishes Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin. The shared Greek form is not silently differentiated.
Verse 24:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:7 The king of Egypt did not again leave his land, because the king of Babylon had taken everything belonging to the king of Egypt from Egypt's torrent to the River Euphrates.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:7 The king of Egypt did not again leave his land, because the king of Babylon had taken everything belonging to the king of Egypt from Egypt's torrent to the River Euphrates.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The extent of Babylon's conquest and Egypt's resulting inactivity agree.
Verse 24:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:8 Joakim was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nestha daughter of Ellanathan, from Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The names Jehoiachin/Joakim and Nehushta/Nestha are retained independently. Both sources give eighteen years of age and a three-month reign.
Verse 24:9 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:9 He did what was evil in YHWH's eyes, according to everything his father had done.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:9 He did what was evil in the Lord's eyes, according to everything his father had done.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both judge the son by his father's conduct.
Verse 24:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:10 At that time Nabouchodonosor king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew makes the king's servants the advancing party; Greek makes the king himself the subject.
Verse 24:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:11 Nabouchodonosor king of Babylon entered the city while his servants were besieging it.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew says came against the city; Greek explicitly says entered into it. Both retain the servants' simultaneous siege.
Verse 24:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:12 Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his officers, and his officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:12 Joakim king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his servants, his mother, his rulers, and his eunuchs. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek orders the servants before the mother and uses eunuchs for Hebrew sarisim. The surrender and eighth-year date agree.
Verse 24:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:13 He brought out from there all the treasures of YHWH's house and the treasures of the king's house. He cut apart all the gold vessels Solomon king of Israel had made in YHWH's sanctuary, as YHWH had spoken.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:13 He brought out from there all the treasures of the Lord's house and the treasures of the king's house. He cut apart all the gold vessels Solomon king of Israel had made in the Lord's sanctuary, according to the Lord's word.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both describe removal of the treasures and cutting up the gold vessels as fulfillment of the divine word.
Verse 24:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:14 He exiled all Jerusalem, all the officers, and all the mighty warriors—ten thousand exiles—and every craftsman and locksmith. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:14 He deported Jerusalem, all the rulers, and the mighty in strength, taking ten thousand captives, and every craftsman and one who shuts up. None remained except the land's poor.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The ten thousand and the retained poor agree. Greek's participial occupational term, literally one who shuts up, corresponds to Hebrew masger, rendered provisionally as locksmith; no additional trade is inferred.
Verse 24:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:15 He exiled Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the land's leading men he carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:15 He deported Joakim to Babylon, along with the king's mother, the king's wives, and his eunuchs. He led the land's powerful men into deportation from Jerusalem to Babylon,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both include the royal women and leading men in the deportation. Greek continues the list into the next verse; Hebrew's leading-men noun and Greek powerful ones broadly correspond.
Verse 24:16 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:16 All the men of strength, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and locksmiths, one thousand—all mighty men able to wage war—the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:16 and all the men of the force, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and those who shut up, one thousand—all mighty men who waged war. The king of Babylon brought them into deportation to Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give seven thousand military men and one thousand craftsmen and masger-class workers. These figures are preserved alongside verse fourteen's total without an invented numerical reconciliation.
Verse 24:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:17 The king of Babylon made Maththanias, his son, king in his place and gave him the name Sedekias.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew identifies the new king as his uncle; Greek says his son. This changes the stated kinship and is preserved without importing a harmonized genealogy.
Verse 24:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamital daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:18 Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Amital daughter of Jeremiah.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek omits the mother's origin in Libnah. The Hebrew displayed name's written yod is reflected in Hamital; its relation to Hamutal at 23:31 requires the written/read review. Age and reign agree.
Verse 24:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:19 He did what was evil in YHWH's eyes, according to everything Jehoiakim had done.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:19 He did what was evil before the Lord, according to everything Joakim had done.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both measure the last king's evil conduct against Jehoiakim's precedent.
Verse 24:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
24:20 For this came upon Jerusalem and Judah because of YHWH's anger, until He cast them from His presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
24:20 For this came upon Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord's anger, until He cast them from His presence. Sedekias broke faith with the king of Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The divine-anger explanation agrees; Greek again describes rebellion as repudiating allegiance.