2 Kings

Chapters

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8
9. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12
13. 13
14. 14
15. 15
16. 16
17. 17
18. 18
19. 19
20. 20
21. 21
22. 22
23. 23
24. 24
25. 25

In the maps

• 2 Kings 25:13

  When Scripture inventories what the Babylonians took from the temple, the Ark is not on the list (the parallel list in Jeremiah 52:17–23 omits it too). Pitre uses this negative evidence against the common assumption that Babylon carried the Ark away (p 50): the Bible itself does not say so. That silence is what makes the 2 Maccabees tradition of Jeremiah hiding the Ark the oldest positive account we have.