2 Kings 24:12

American Standard Version (1901)

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּצֵ֞א יְהוֹיָכִ֤ין מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָה֙ עַל־מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל ה֣וּא וְאִמּ֔וֹ וַעֲבָדָ֖יו וְשָׂרָ֣יו וְסָֽרִיסָ֑יו וַיִּקַּ֤ח אֹתוֹ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל בִּשְׁנַ֥ת שְׁמֹנֶ֖ה לְמָלְכֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And-wayyēṣēʾ yəhôyāḵîn meleḵ-yəhûḏāh to-meleḵ bāḇel he and-ʾimmô and-ʿăḇāḏāyw and-śārāyw and-sārîsāyw and-wayyiqqaḥ ʾōṯô meleḵ bāḇel in-šənaṯ šəmōneh to-mālḵô.

Grammar Details

• *wayyēṣēʾ*: Qal imperfect consecutive 3rd person masculine singular - and he went out
• *yəhôyāḵîn*: proper noun - Jehoiachin
• *meleḵ*: masculine singular construct noun - king of
• *yəhûḏāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *bāḇel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *ʾimmô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his mother
• *ʿăḇāḏāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his servants
• *śārāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his officials
• *sārîsāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his eunuchs
• *wayyiqqaḥ*: Qal imperfect consecutive 3rd person masculine singular - and he took
• *ʾōṯô*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him
• *šənaṯ*: feminine singular construct noun - year of
• *šəmōneh*: cardinal number - eight
• *mālḵô*: Qal infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his reigning

Word Meanings

• *wayyēṣēʾ* to-*meleḵ* *bāḇel*: went out to/surrendered to
• *śārāyw*: his officials/princes/nobles
• *sārîsāyw*: his eunuchs/court officials
• *wayyiqqaḥ*: took/seized/captured
• *mālḵô*: his reign/his kingship

Referenced Verses

• Jer 24:1 : 1 Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
• Jer 52:28 : 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
• Jer 29:1-2 : 1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, 2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,)
• 2 Kgs 25:27 : 27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
• 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• Jer 25:1 : 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,)
• Ezek 17:12 : 12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon:
• Jer 22:24-30 : 24 As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25 and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. 30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
• Jer 38:17-18 : 17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house. 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
• Jer 52:31 : 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;