◄ 2 Kings 20:18 ►
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Good News Translation
Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia."

New Revised Standard Version
Some of your own sons who are born to you shall be taken away; they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Contemporary English Version
Some of your own sons will be taken to Babylonia, where they will be disgraced and made to serve in the king's palace.

New American Bible
Some of your own descendants, your offspring, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

thy sons.

2 Kings 24:12 And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.

2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

they shall be.

2 Kings 1:3-7 And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? . . .

Context
Hezekiah Shows His Treasures
…17Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. 18And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.19Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:12
And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

Jeremiah 20:5
And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its labour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they shall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon.

Daniel 1:3
And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes,

Micah 4:10
Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counselor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour.

2 Kings 20:17
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