What Does 2 Kings 24:15 Mean in the King James?

And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Kings 24:15 · KJV

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THE KEY

Conquest reaches into the royal household and the ruling class, carrying people away until even their place in the land is stripped from them.

THE MEANING

This verse lays bare the reach of conquest: the king, his mother and wives, his officers, and the powerful are carried from Jerusalem into captivity. Displacement seizes both household and civic life, exposing how much of a community is bound to its people and their place.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that rank or authority makes someone untouchable: the king’s household and ruling circle are carried away too.

THE ROOT

וַיֶּגֶל

wayyeḡel

GROWS FROM

גלה

Uncover, reveal; in this verse, carry away into exile.

“carried away” in this verse is wayyeḡel. The root ⁨גלה⁩ holds uncovering and exile in one word family: here, carrying people away also exposes them to the loss of home and protection. The verse then uses ⁨גּוֹלָה⁩ for the exile into which they are led, showing removal and captivity as linked forms of the same root.

ALSO GROWS

galah: Uncover, reveal

גָּלָה

This verbal form shares the root’s consonants and shows the exposure sense alongside the verse’s sense of forced removal.

niglah: Be uncovered, be revealed

נִגְלָה

This form keeps the consonants ⁨גלה⁩ and makes the root’s sense of exposure visible beside the captives’ vulnerability.

golah: Exile, captivity

גּוֹלָה

This noun appears in the verse’s final clause; it names the state of exile that follows the carrying away.

THE PATTERN

Violence reaches beyond rulers to uproot households and communities, carrying displacement into memory.

Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.

2 Kings 25:11 · KJVThe removal extends from the captured royal circle to the people left in the city, showing conquest uprooting a wider community.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:1 · KJVThe exiles’ tears show how displacement continues in the memory of home.

And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

Matthew 2:13 · KJVA threatened ruler forces a mother, child, and household to flee, showing violence driving displacement down to the family.

THE THREAD

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

Jeremiah 29:4 · KJV

Jeremiah 29:4 repeats ⁨גלה⁩ in both “carried away captives” and “caused to be carried away,” the same root family heard in ⁨וַיֶּגֶל⁩ and ⁨גּוֹלָה⁩ here. The shared root links the act of removal with the people living in exile.

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