2 Chronicles 36:6 - Exposition

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon . Our mere allusions in this and the following verse to Nebuchadnezzar's relations to Jehoiakim and Judah are strange in comparison with the graphic account furnished by the parallel ( 2 Kings 24:1-6 ). The name is the same with Nabokodrosoros, is written in the Assyrian monuments Nebu-kuduri-utzur, and meaning, "Nebo ( Isaiah 46:1 ), protector from ill," or "protects the crown." In Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 49:28 ) we have the name written Nebuchadrezzar, as also in Ezekiel. Nebuchadnezzar, second King of Babylon, was the son of Nabopolassar, who took Nineveh B.C. 625, and reigned above forty years. Though we are here told he bound Jehoiakim in chains, to take him to Babylon, for some reason or other he did not carry out this intention, and Jehoiakim was put to death at Jerusalem ( Jeremiah 12:1-17 :18, 19; Jeremiah 36:30 ; Ezekiel 19:8 , Ezekiel 19:9 ). The expedition of Nebuchadnezzar was B.C. 605-4 ( Daniel 1:1 ; Jeremiah 25:1 ), and during it, his father dying, he succeeded to the throne.