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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXXΚαὶ ἀνέβη ἐπʼ αὐτὸν Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν ἐν χαλκαῖς πέδαις, καὶ ἀπήγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα. (Kai anebaʸ epʼ auton Nabouⱪodonosor basileus Babulōnos, kai edaʸsen auton en ⱪalkais pedais, kai apaʸgagen auton eis Babulōna. )
BrTrAnd Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.
ULTAgainst him Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came up, and he bound him with bronze to bring him to Babylon.
USTThen the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They captured Jehoiakim, fastened him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.
BSBThen Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
T4TThen the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They captured Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
KJB-1611[fn]Against him came vp Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to cary him to Babylon. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)
GnvaAgainst him came vp Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel, and bounde him with chaines to cary him to Babel. (Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel, and bound him with chains to carry him to Babel. )
ClVgContra hunc ascendit Nabuchodonosor rex Chaldæorum, et vinctum catenis duxit in Babylonem. (Contra this_one went_up Nabuchodonosor king Chaldæorum, and vinctumcatenis leader/chiefit in/into/on Babylonem. )
(Some words not found in UHB: on/upon/above=him/it came_up Nebukadnetstsar king Bāⱱel and,bound,him in/on/at/with,bronze_shackles to,take,him Babylon,to )
The word “him” refers to Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim represents either Jerusalem or the nation of Judah. Alternate translation: “attacked Jerusalem” or “attacked Judah”
One of the most significant events in the story of the Old Testament is the exile of Judah to Babylon in 586 B.C. This event–actually the third in a series of exiles to Babylon (the others occurring in 605 B.C. and 597 B.C.)–precipitated several crises in the nation and in Judaism. The northern kingdom of Israel had already been exiled to Assyria over a century earlier in 722 B.C. (2 Kings 15:29; 17:1-6; 1 Chronicles 5:26; see also “Israelites Are Exiled to Assyria” map), and in some ways that exile was even more devastating. Nevertheless, the Temple of the Lord remained intact in Jerusalem as a place where the faithful could continue to offer their sacrifices. With the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of the Lord at the hands of the Babylonians, however, sacrifices could no longer be offered at the Tabernacle or Temple of the Lord (Leviticus 17:2-4; Deuteronomy 12:5-7), and the Lord’s promise to provide a land for his people and a descendant on the throne of David no doubt seemed abandoned. At the same time, however, the Judean exiles were allowed to maintain their religious traditions in Babylon, and many even began to thrive there, including Daniel and his friends, who served at the royal court (Daniel 1; see also “The Land of Exile” map). One of the last kings of Babylon expanded Babylonia further by capturing the desert oases of Dumah, Tema, Dedan, and Yathrib (see “Oases of the Arabian Desert” map), but eventually the Median Empire to the north merged with the Persian Empire to the southeast and conquered the Babylonian Empire. King Cyrus of Persia then decreed that the exiled Judeans, now called “Jews,” could return to their homeland if they desired (2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 1-2; see also “Jews Return from Exile” map).
