Jeremiah 52:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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יְהוֹיָקִֽים

Yᵉhôwyâqîym

H3079

“Jehoiakim”

Noun, Proper

Appears 37× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Kings 23:34

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3068 abbreviated and H6965 , cf. H3113

TWOT: None

Jehoiakim = "Jehovah raises up" - son of Josiah and the third from the last king of Judah; subject vassel of Nebuchadnezzar who reigned for 11 years before he died a violent death either in combat or by the hands of his own subjects

About this verse

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8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְהוֹיָקִֽים Jehoiakim H3079 occurs in 37 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 adjective
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ to do H6213 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 52:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 14:22 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
2 Kings 24:19–20 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jeremiah 26:21–23 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:
Jeremiah 36:21–23 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.
Jeremiah 36:29–31 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
Ezekiel 17:16–20 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Ezekiel 21:25 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
2 Chronicles 36:12–13 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Yahweh.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 52:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂ֖ה יְהוֹיָקִֽים

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַעֲבַד דְבִישׁ קֳדָם יְיָ כְּכֹל דִי עֲבַד יְהוֹיָקִים:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 52:2 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2. And he did - evil] This and the following verse are the same as 2Kg 24:19.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord,.... Though we do not read of any idolatry he was guilty of; yet he was disobedient to the word of the Lord, and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet of the Lord, that spoke in his name; and particularly he rebelled against the king of Babylon, and violated the oath he made to him, Ch2 36:12;

according to all that Jehoiakim had done; an elder brother of his, who reigned after Josiah, and before Jehoiachin.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zedekiah - It is generally thought that this chapter was not penned by Jeremiah, who, it is not probable, would have so largely repeated what he had related before; and could not historically relate what happened after his time, as some things did which are mentioned towards the end of the chapter. Probably it was penned by some of those in Babylon, and put in here as a preface to the book of Lamentations.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉhôwyâqîym (“Jehoiakim”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Jehoiakim” (Yᵉhôwyâqîym) shape what this verse is saying?
2 Kings 23:34 shares the word «Jehoiakim» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וַיַּ֥עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“to do” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.