Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
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Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
And Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, took them and made them go to the king of Babylon, to Riblah.
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Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the King of Babel to Riblah.
These Nabuzardan the general of the army took away, and carried them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah,
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners takes them, and causes them to go to the king of Babylon, to Libnah,
Then Nebuzaradan, the commander of the bodyguard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
And Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, took them and made them go to the king of Babylon, to Riblah.
And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Riblah.
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רִבְלָֽתָה Riblah H7247 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רִבְלָֽתָה Riblah H7247 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֹתָ֔ם נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב טַבָּחִ֑ים וַיֹּ֧לֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם עַל מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל רִבְלָֽתָה
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λαμβάνω αὐτός ναβουζαρδαν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος καί ἀποἄγω αὐτός πρός ὁ βασιλεύς βαβυλών εἰς δεβλαθα
And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּדְבַר יַתְהוֹן נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן רַב קָטוֹלַיָא וְאוֹבִיל יַתְהוֹן לְוַת מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל לְרִבְלָת:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Riblâh (“Riblah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 25:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.