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Egypt was the major power in the Levant for centuries. The Philistines, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites all played various roles in harassing the Israelites. Then the Assyrians entered the picture and wiped out the North and most of Judah, but they stopped short of total destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 24 introduces the latest superpower- the Babylonians. For a nation that has not had an impact so far, at least in their more contemporary form, they enter the story with a bang. First, the Babylonians subdue the mighty Egyptians- conquering much of the Egyptian territory. Then they turn their sights on the tiny kingdom of Judah that they passed on their way to Egypt. At this point, the young Jehoiachin is king and does not stand a chance against the powerful foe. The Babylonians enter the city and begin the long destruction process with the first exile of the nobility and upper class, including the king. All that is left in Judah is the lower classes of the population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nebuchadnezzar appoints Jehoiachin's uncle as king, and in a further disgrace, he changes his name from Mattaniah to Zedekiah. Changing names is not something new in Tanach. God changes the names of Abram, Sarai, and Moses changes Hoshea\u2019s name (to Joshua). All of these names are different Hebrew versions of an already Hebrew name.\u00a0 Pharoah changes Joseph\u2019s name to an Egyptian one when he makes him grand vizier. Later on, Daniel and his compatriots will have their names changed to Babylonian names.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One would have expected that like Pharoah, and like he does later, the foreign king would change his vassal\u2019s name to a foreign name. But Nebuchadnezzar does not change Mattaniah\u2019s name to a Babylonian one. Instead, he selects another Hebrew name and a flattering one at that- God is righteous. Some interpret this as hubris on Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s part claiming that he was righteous because God had chosen him to destroy the city.\u00a0 The Talmud in Keritot 5b offers that Nebuchadnezzar named him Zedekiah as warning that God will be in the right to punish Zedekiah if he rebels against Nebuchadnezzar. This is supported by the end of the chapter:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah were a cause of anger for the LORD, so that He cast them out of His presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon (verse 20).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It could also be a way to mock the inhabitants of the city and God. The people of Jerusalem think they have been so righteous and have a righteous king but look what is happening to them. They brought destruction on themselves because they were anything but righteous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Babylonians, who first entered the region during the reign of Hezekiah, now asserted themselves and subjugated Judah, whose attempted rebellion was suppressed by the combined forces of \u201cChaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites\u201d (2), in punishment for the crimes committed by Manasseh.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only three months into the reign of Jehoiachin, Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem but Jehoiachin did not capitulate until the eighth year of his reign (or the seventh, as per Jeremiah 52:28)\u2014implying that he withstood the pressure for 8 years, which was no mean feat. The royal family was exiled and the treasures of both palace and Temple were taken, even \u201cthe golden decorations in the Temple of the LORD, which King Solomon of Israel had made, as the LORD had warned\u201d (13), a reference to 20:17: \u201cA time is coming when everything in your palace which your ancestors have stored up to this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will remain behind, said the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Along with the royal family, the Babylonians exiled Jerusalem\u2019s upper class, leaving behind \u201conly the poorest of the peasantry\u201d (14). Nebuchadnezzar set up a vassal king in Jehoiachin\u2019s stead\u2014his uncle Mattaniah, \u201cchanging his name to Zedekiah\u201d (17). What was the purpose of the name change? Mattaniah means \u201cgift of God,\u201d and Zedekiah means \u201cjustice of God.\u201d According to several of the medieval exegetes (Rashi, Kara, Radak), the change was intended by Nebuchadnezzar to convey the message to Zedekiah that God would justifiably deal with him if he were to rebel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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One of the hallmarks of the books of Kings is the interweaving of political reportage with covenantal history. The narrative faithfully records the lineage of the Kings of Judah and Israel, their successes, failures, alliances, political intrigues, sieges wars, dynastic marriages births and deaths. The authors understood statecraft. Events have a recognizable political logic to them. And at the same time the story is interspersed with the vignettes and prophetic observations about the moral and spiritual history of the times: This king did good in God\u2019s eyes, that king did evil; God blessed the people accordingly, with peace and prosperity for the good and punished them with war and upheaval for the bad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The vicissitudes of nations and empires that may have seemed either politically predictable or chaotic and arbitrary to those enmeshed in them are presented in the light of prophetic hindsight - as the moral consequences of inexorable spiritual laws.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The beginning of Chapter 24 is a fine example of this. As the Bible prepares to narrate the catastrophic end of the First Jewish Commonwealth, it tells us:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his days, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him\u2026 All this befell Judah at the command of the LORD, who banished from His presence because of all the sins that Manasseh had committed, and also because of the blood of the innocent that he shed. For he filled Jerusalem with the blood of the innocent, and the Lord would not forgive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The authorial aside informs us why the disasters that are about to strike really transpired. The shifting power structures of the Middle East, the decline of Egypt and the rise of Babylon as the dominant regional power are the veil behind which the deeper drama of Israel\u2019s struggles to be true to the covenant with God unfolded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reason given for the destruction is striking. God still has not forgiven the massive bloodshed perpetrated by King Manasseh decades earlier. Murder, rather than idolatry, sealed the fate of Jerusalem. As Rambam writes in the Laws of Killing and Saving Life, (9:4) murder is uniquely pernicious in its destruction of society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today we also live in turbulent times. We don\u2019t have prophets to explain to us the divine logic behind seemingly random and inexplicable events. Yet the Book of Kings stands as a record that deeper laws are at work in the history of Israel and our surroundings. 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24:20 \u201cFor because of the Lord\u2019s wrath, it was against Jerusalem and against Judah, till He flung them from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylonia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As usual, the writer provides no political explanation -- in this case, for the fact that Zedekiah, having been installed by Nebuchadnezzar as a vassal king, now decides to rebel. From the book of Jeremiah, from Ezekiel, and from extra-biblical sources, we know that there were sharp divisions within the kingdom of Judah between a pro-Egyptian faction and a pro-Babylonian faction. Zedekiah at this moment, counting on Egyptian support, joined an alliance of trans-Jordanian kingdoms plotting to overthrow Babylonian rule. In the event, Egypt did not provide support, and the rebellion failed to materialize. The consequence was Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s assault on Jerusalem and the destruction of the kingdom of Judah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/i>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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The eighteen-year-old Jehoiachin reigned for only three months, coming to power while the city was being besieged by the mighty Babylonian forces. Jerusalem hardly resisted. As we know, Jerusalem was capable of withstanding a siege for far longer than three months, and no battle or conquest is mentioned in Kings. That being the case, it is reasonable to assume that the king or his advisors made a calculated tradeoff \u2014 to surrender the king in order to save the city. This surrender and the humiliating and devastating exile that followed is dated to the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign. Since Kings hardly ever dates an event by the regnal years of a foreign ruler, this literary device merely underscores the nation's domination by the Babylonians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nebuchadnezzar, however, is not satisfied with the mere removal of the national figurehead and the appointment of Jehoiachin's brother Mattaniah, a ruler sympathetic to Babylonia, in his place. First, Mattaniah is renamed Zedekiah. Then Nebuchadnezzar strips the Temple of its golden vessels and empties it and the royal treasury of their wealth. He also exiles the leaders of society. The book of Kings offers a detailed register of the deportees \u2014 the royalty, the aristocracy, the military, skilled craftsmen, and industrialists \u2014 all in all, ten thousand exiles:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylonia. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylonia. And the king of Babylonia brought captive to Babylonia all the men of valor...and the craftsmen and the metal workers (II Kings 24:15-16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Among the exiles are personalities that we meet elsewhere in Tanakh:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the capital Shushan lived a Jew by the name of Mordecai, son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite. Who had been exiled from Jerusalem in the group that was carried into exile along with King Jeconiah [Jehoiachin] of Judah, which had been driven into exile by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia (Esther 2:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet another character exiled at this time is a priest \u2014 the prophet Ezekiel. The baseline of the dating system that marks his prophecy is the year of Jehoiachin's exile. Ezekiel's prophetic role was to offer God's perspective to the exiles of Judah, as the tumultuous events were befalling Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Other famous exiles.<\/em> The exile of Jehoiachin, or the exile of the craftsmen, occurred in the year 597 BCE. By the way, among the exiles were two figures who we will meet later in our reading. One was Ezekiel son of Buzi, the prophet, and also: \u201c<\/span>In the capital Shushan lived a Jew by the name of Mordecai, son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite. Who had been exiled from Jerusalem in the group that was carried into exile along with King Jeconiah [Jehoiachin] of Judah, which had been driven into exile by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia'' (Esther 2:5-6).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Craftsman and smith.<\/em> Among the exiles are the also the craftsmen, the wood and metal workers. The king of Babylon profits twice. He causes irreparable damage to the local Judean economy and their military capabilities, and he recruits trained workers for his own building projects.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Name changer.<\/em> Nebuchadnezzar grants a new name to the local king that he appointed. Just like the king of Egypt did in the previous chapter. This is their way of saying who here is king, and who is just a vassal who must do his bidding.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The painful question.<\/em> The chapter describes a political situation. Surrender, rebellion, punishment, siege, submission, exile. But the political story of how we got to the exile of Jehoiachin, is not enough to explain everything that happened. The question of \u201cwhy?\u201d directs us to a deeper answer, in the belief that history has a greater meaning. That meaning, according to verses 3-4 is that the destruction is based on moral sins too great to be forgiven: \u201cAll this befell Judah at the command of the LORD, who banished [them] from His presence because of all the sins that Manasseh had committed, and also because of the blood of the innocent that he shed. 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