📖WEB · 2 Kings 24:1
What does 2 Kings 24:1 mean?
"In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him."
— 2 Kings 24:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
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Biblical perspective
What does 24/10 mean spiritually?
If you're searching for the meaning behind seeing 24/10 or the time 00:24, the Bible doesn't assign spiritual meaning to dates or time patterns — but Psalm 24 and John 10 are both worth reading.
Psalm 24 opens with "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it" — a declaration of God's ownership of everything. John 10 contains Jesus' "I am the Good Shepherd" passage.
Psalm 24:1
"The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it."
John 10:14
"I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own."
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