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2 Chronicles 36:18 Explained in Context
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Verse 18. 18And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
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Quick Meaning
Removes every scale of temple vessel and royal treasure to Babylon.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 36:17–36:21
Removes every scale of temple vessel and royal treasure to Babylon. Read 2 Chronicles 36:18 within 36:17–36:21. The complete unit records: Chaldean forces kill young and old without compassion, carry away temple and royal treasures, burn the temple and palaces, breach the wall, deport survivors, and leave the land desolate until Persia, interpreted through Jeremiah and sabbath language.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The temple warning of chapter 7 reaches its terrible end, yet the text names victims and survival before giving theological interpretation. In this exact position, the line beginning “And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the…” removes every scale of temple vessel and royal treasure to Babylon.
What Remains True
Removes every scale of temple vessel and royal treasure to Babylon. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse removes every scale of temple vessel and royal treasure to Babylon, keep it inside 36:17–36:21, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 36:17–36:21 — Jerusalem falls, survivors serve Babylon, and the land restsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 36:17–36:21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 36:17–36:21
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 36:17–36:21, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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