2 Kings 24:2

Good News Translation

The Lord sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the Lord had said through his servants the prophets that he would do.

Cross References

2 Kings 20:17

a time is coming when everything in your palace, everything that your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be carried off to Babylonia. Nothing will be left.

2 Kings 22:16

the following message from the Lord: “I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, as written in the book that the king has read.

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshiped.”

2 Kings 6:23

So the king of Israel provided a great feast for them; and after they had eaten and drunk, he sent them back to the king of Syria. From then on the Syrians stopped raiding the land of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the Lord let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.

Job 1:17

Before he had finished speaking, another servant came and said, “Three bands of Chaldean raiders attacked us, took away the camels, and killed all your servants except me. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

Isaiah 13:5

They are coming from far-off countries at the ends of the earth. In his anger the Lord is coming to devastate the whole country.

Isaiah 28:19

It will strike you again and again, morning after morning. You will have to bear it day and night. Each new message from God will bring new terror!

Isaiah 7:17

“The Lord is going to bring on you, on your people, and on the whole royal family, days of trouble worse than any that have come since the kingdom of Israel separated from Judah—he is going to bring the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 12:9

My chosen people are like a bird attacked from all sides by hawks. Call the wild animals to come and join in the feast!

Jeremiah 25:1

In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, I received a message from the Lord concerning all the people of Judah. (This was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia.)

Jeremiah 25:9

‘I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 26:20

There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the Lord against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.

Jeremiah 26:6

If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.”

Jeremiah 32:28

I am going to give this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army; they will capture it

Jeremiah 35:11

But when King Nebuchadnezzar invaded the country, we decided to come to Jerusalem to get away from the Babylonian and Syrian armies. That is why we are living in Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 52:28

This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;

Lamentations 1:17

“I stretch out my hands, but no one will help me. The Lord has called enemies against me from every side; They treat me like some filthy thing.

Ezekiel 19:8

The nations gathered to fight him; people came from everywhere. They spread their hunting nets and caught him in their trap.

Ezekiel 23:23

I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.

Micah 3:12

And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.

Habakkuk 1:6

I am bringing the Babylonians to power, those fierce, restless people. They are marching out across the world to conquer other lands.