2 Kings 24:2 meaning and explanation
And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator reports that raiders from several neighboring peoples attacked Judah during Jehoiakim's reign, and he names the LORD as the one who sent them. Babylon's rise and the opportunism of nearby kingdoms become, in the writer's theological reading, the means by which God carries out the judgment announced earlier through the prophets.
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