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2 Kings 21:14 Explained in Context

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Verse 14. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

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Quick Meaning

This verse foretells the remnant's exposure to enemy plunder.

Read It With

  • 2 Kings 21:10–21:18

Read 2 Kings 21:14 within 2 Kings 21:10–21:18. Prophets compare Jerusalem's coming wiping to Samaria and Ahab, while Manasseh sheds extensive innocent blood before his death.

Why This Verse Appears Here

This verse foretells the remnant's exposure to enemy plunder. This detail is necessary to the thought unit “Prophets announce Jerusalem's judgment and bloodshed is named,” but it is not the unit's whole claim.

Read 2 Kings 21:10–18 together

Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 21:10–21:18 forms one scene or regnal notice: Prophets compare Jerusalem's coming wiping to Samaria and Ahab, while Manasseh sheds extensive innocent blood before his death.

Verse 10. And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

Verse 11. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

Verse 12. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

Verse 13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

Verse 14. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

Verse 15. Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Verse 16. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Verse 17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Verse 18. And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Follow the Context

  1. Prophets compare Jerusalem's coming wiping to Samaria and Ahab, while Manasseh sheds extensive innocent blood before his death.
  2. The unit's narrated outcome or evaluation prepares the next movement without making every described action exemplary.

What This Verse Is Not Saying

2 Kings 21:14 does not stand alone from 2 Kings 21:10–21:18. The judgment metaphor does not authorize ethnic cleansing, mass killing, antisemitism, or claims that victims of Jerusalem's fall deserved violence.

What Remains True

This verse foretells the remnant's exposure to enemy plunder. In the complete scene, that detail supports this larger account: Prophets compare Jerusalem's coming wiping to Samaria and Ahab, while Manasseh sheds extensive innocent blood before his death.

How It Can Shape Life

  • When teaching 2 Kings 21:14, keep this contribution and 2 Kings 21:10–21:18 together. The judgment metaphor does not authorize ethnic cleansing, mass killing, antisemitism, or claims that victims of Jerusalem's fall deserved violence.

Teach It Back

Explain 2 Kings 21:14's precise role in 2 Kings 21:10–21:18. Include the first historical horizon, surrounding verses, one person or cost that a royal or miracle-centered reading could obscure, material uncertainty, and one conclusion this verse does not authorize.

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Read 2 Kings 21:10–21:18 — Prophets announce Jerusalem's judgment and bloodshed is named
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Where care is needed

The source of the prophetic speech and the relation between Manasseh's reign, later exile theology, Kings, and Chronicles are compositional questions; innocent blood remains the narrator's explicit charge.

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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Exact location: 2 Kings 21:10–21:18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:10–21:18

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NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

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Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 660–662, translation and translator notes for 21:10–21:18

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