2 Kings 24:4

Translations

Modern

…and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

Traditional

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.

Literal

…and also of the innocent blood that he poured out. And he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was not willing to forgive.

Latin

…et propter sanguinem innoxium quem effudit, et implevit Jerusalem cruore innocentium: et ob hanc rem noluit Dominus propitiari.

Original

Hebrew

English

…and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

Notes

2 Kings 24:4

innocent blood: Tradition says that Manasseh killed the prophet Isaiah by cutting him in half (see Hebrews 11:37).

2 Kings 24:1–25:21

Nebuchadnezzar II attacked Judah at least three times, in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC.

He took treasures from Jerusalem and captured people to bring to Babylon (see 2 Kings 24:1, 10–17; 25:1–21).

Theme notes and profiles

Babylon Manasseh Nebuchadnezzar II Making Sense of the Exile The Collapse of Culture The Dangers of Sin

Events

Reign of Jehoiakimc. 609 BC

Related verses

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 19:10
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
Ezekiel 33:25
Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
Jeremiah 2:34
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
Numbers 35:33
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Psalm 106:38
They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Jeremiah 15:1–2
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
Jeremiah 19:4
…because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Lamentations 3:42
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

Babylon, Babylonia Bloodguilt Forgiveness Jehoiakim Kings, Books of First and Second Manasseh (Person) Temple Zechariah, Book of

Topics

Babylon: Empire of Judah Homicide: Felonious: Manasseh Jehoiakim: Wicked Reign and Final Overthrow of Prophecies Concerning Israel: Jehoiakim is Elevated to the Throne Sin: The Israelites Unpardonable Sin: General Scriptures Concerning

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