The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Parallel translations
- KJV And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
- BSB The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- NKJV The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
- NASB Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.
- NLT Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took with him as prisoners Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three chief gatekeepers.
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Quick answer
Nebuzaradan seized Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three temple gatekeepers. The leading priests were taken for execution.
Overview
The capture of the highest religious officials signaled the dismantling of the entire religious establishment that had grown corrupt. Seraiah was an ancestor of Ezra (Ezra 7:1), linking this judgment to the later restoration. The fall of a failed priesthood deepens the longing for the perfect High Priest, Christ, who never fails and intercedes forever (Hebrews 7:23-27).
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- 2 Kgs 25:18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
- Jer 29:25“Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
- Jer 21:1The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
- 1 Chr 6:14Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
- Jer 35:4and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
- Jer 37:3Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”
- Jer 52:15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Jer 29:29Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
- Ezra 7:1Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- 1 Chr 9:19–26Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
- Jer 52:12Now 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.
- Ps 84:10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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