Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
17. nothing shall be left ] Though some few Jews remained behind among the ruins of the desolated city, nothing worth taking as booty was left behind. For a description of the overthrow and the plunder, see below 2Ki 25:9-17.
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Verse 17. Behold, the days come] This was fulfilled in the days of the latter Jewish kings, when the Babylonians had led the people away into captivity, and stripped the land, the temple, &c., of all their riches. See Da 1:1-3.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
This judgment is denounced against him for his pride, which God exceedingly abhors; and for his ingratitude, whereby he took that honour to himself which he should have given entirely to God, and abused Gods gifts and favours to the gratification of his own lusts; of both which see 2Ch 32:25,26; and for his carnal confidence in that league which he had now made with the king of Babylon, by which, it is probable, he thought his mountain to be so strong, that it could not be removed.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[See comments on 2Ki 20:12]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) Behold, the days come . . .Comp. 2Ch. 32:25-26; 2Ch. 32:31. It is there said that Divine wrath fell upon Hezekiah, because his heart was lifted up; and that the Babylonian embassy was an occasion in which God made proof of his inward tendencies. Self-confidence and vanity would be awakened in Hezekiahs heart as he displayed all his resources to the envoys, and heard their politic, and perhaps hyperbolical, expressions of wonder and delight, and himself, it may be, realised for the first time the full extent of his prosperity. But it was not only the kings vanity which displeased a prophet who had always consistently denounced foreign alliances as betokening deviation from absolute trust in Jehovah; and a more terrible irony than that which animates the oracle before us can hardly be conceived. Thy friends, he cries, will prove robbers, thine allies will become thy conquerors. That Isaiah should have foreseen that Assyria, then in the heyday of its power, would one day be dethroned from the sovereignty of the world by that very Babylon which, at the time he spoke, was menaced with ruin by the Assyrian arms, can only be accepted as true by those who accept the reality of supernatural prediction. Thenius remarks: An Isaiah might well perceive i what fate threatened the little kingdom of Judah, in case of a revolution of affairs brought about by the Babylonians. But the tone of the prophecy is not hypothetical, but entirely positive. Besides, Isaiah evidently did not suppose that Merodach-baladans revolt would succeed. (Comp. Isa. 14:29, seq., 21:9.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
17. Shall be carried unto Babylon This seems to have been the first explicit prophecy of this great woe of Judah, though Micah’s (iv, 10) prediction of the same event must have been nearly contemporary. The prophecy is especially remarkable, since Babylon was at this time an inferior power, little more than a dependency of Assyria, whose leading men had risen in rebellion; and there was far more probability that Judah would be carried into exile either by the king of Assyria or by the king of Egypt, which two at the time seemed to divide the empire of the world between them.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Ver. 17. That all that is in thine house. ] So that thou hast made a fair hand of all, forfeited all by thine ostentation, ambition, and creature confidence.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.
into Babylon. Compare 2Ch 33:11, and see note on 2Ki 20:12. A remarkable prophecy, as Babylon was of little account as yet (compare Isa 39:6). The return from Babylon was also foretold (Isa 48:49).
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shall be carried: 2Ki 24:13, 2Ki 25:13-15, Lev 26:19, 2Ch 36:10, 2Ch 36:18, Jer 27:21, Jer 27:22, Jer 52:17-19
Reciprocal: 1Ki 11:12 – in thy days 2Ki 22:16 – Behold 2Ki 24:2 – according Job 20:28 – increase Psa 87:4 – Babylon Isa 39:6 – that all Jer 20:5 – I will deliver Dan 1:3 – General
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2Ki 20:17. Behold, the days come, &c. So small was the power of the Babylonians at this time, in respect of their mighty neighbour, the king of Assyria, whom the Jews stood in perpetual fear of, that nothing could seem more improbable than that the Babylonians should carry away the inhabitants of Jerusalem captive. But the divine providence ruleth over all, and sees from the beginning to the end; and, accordingly, in about a hundred and twenty-five years after, the event proved that the word of the Lord stands fast for ever, and that what he speaks shall surely come to pass. Thus short-sighted is human policy! Thus does our ruin often arise from that in which we most place our confidence!