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1 Chronicles 6:15

Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
1 Chronicles 6:15 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
  • BSB Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
  • NKJV Jehozadak went into captivity when the Lord carried Judah and Jerusalem into captivity by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
  • NASB Jehozadak went along when the Lord led Judah and Jerusalem into exile by Nebuchadnezzar.
  • NLT who went into exile when the Lord sent the people of Judah and Jerusalem into captivity under Nebuchadnezzar.

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Quick answer

Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into captivity under Nebuchadnezzar. This verse anchors the priestly line to the trauma of the Babylonian exile.

Overview

The Chronicler explicitly names the exile as the LORD's own act of judgment, executed through Babylon, fulfilling the warnings of the prophets. Yet even in judgment God preserved the priestly line through Jehozadak, whose son Joshua would help lead the return and restore worship (Haggai 1:1). This holds together God's justice against sin and his mercy in preserving a people and a priesthood, ultimately for the coming of Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Hag 1:1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
  • 2 Kgs 25:18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
  • Hag 2:2“Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
  • Hag 1:14Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
  • 2 Kgs 25:21The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
  • 2 Chr 36:17–21Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.
  • Rom 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
  • 2 Kgs 14:27Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
  • Ezra 5:2Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
  • Hag 1:12Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
  • Jer 39:9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
  • Jer 52:12–15Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
  • Exod 4:13He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
  • Jer 52:28This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;

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Christ at the center

The genealogies and the everlasting covenant with David trace the single thread of promise running through the generations straight to the Christ in whom the line reaches its goal.

How 1 Chronicles 6:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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