Why did God permit the king Nebuchadnezzar to keep captive... (Daniel 1:1-2)?

Question

Daniel 1:1-2
"(1) In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. (2) The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god."



Why did God permit the king Nebuchadnezzar to keep captive Jerusalem? What did Jehoiakim king of Judah do wrong or what did the Jews do wrong? Please provide your answer with Biblical verses.

Answer 1

I dont know exactly what he did... It just says he did evil in the site of God

2 Chronicles 36: 5Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

6Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

7Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

Answer 2

Interesting question. The first clue to an answer to your question will be found in 2 Chronicles 36:5-8, which says that Jehoiakim (nee Eliakim) "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord," so against him, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up and besieged the land. Verse 8 says that the rest of Jehoiakim's abominable acts, and what was found against him, were written in the Book of Kings.

The second clue is found in 2 Kings 23:31-24:6. It seems that Jehoiakim received God's actual judgment against the Hebrews from abominable acts starting from the rebellious era of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:10-16) all the way up to Jehoiakim's breaking of the treaty with and rising up against Babylon. In that, God promises to "wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down . . . cast[ing] off the remnant of [his] heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies." Remember that after the destruction of the kingdom in the north, Judah (the kingdom in the south) was the remnant. God fuliflls this promise of judgment of the remnant during the reign of Jehoiakim.

Answer 3

Early in Jehoiakim’s reign Jeremiah warned that unless the people repented, Jerusalem and her temple would be destroyed. Thereafter the prophet was threatened with death.
Previously, similar prophesying by Urijah had so enraged Jehoiakim that he had determined to kill him. Although fearful Urijah had fled to Egypt, he did not escape the king’s wrath. Jehoiakim had had Urijah brought back and then had killed him with the sword.—Jer 26:1-24.
. It was not until Jehoiakim’s fourth year of rule over Judah that Nebuchadnezzar demolished Egyptian domination over Syria-Palestine by his victory at Carchemish (625 B.C.E. [apparently after Nisan]). (Jer 46:2) Since Jehoiakim’s revolt against Babylon led to his downfall after about 11 years on the throne, the beginning of his three-year vassalage to Babylon must have begun toward the end of his eighth year of rule, or early in 620 B.C.E.

Daniel’s account (1:1, 2) states that Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem and laid siege to it and that Jehoiakim, along with some of the temple utensils, was given into the Babylonian king’s hand. It therefore appears that Jehoiakim died during the siege of the city, perhaps in the early part thereof. God’s prophecy through Jeremiah (22:18, 19; 36:30) indicated that Jehoiakim was not to receive a decent burial; his corpse was to lie unattended outside the gates of Jerusalem, exposed to the sun’s heat by day and the frost by night. Just in what way Jehoiakim was ‘given into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar’ (Da 1:2) is not revealed. It may have been in the sense of his dying under siege and of his son’s thereafter having to go out into captivity, so that Jehoiakim’s line suffered the loss of the kingship at Nebuchadnezzar’s hands. Nebuchadnezzar was used by God to cut Jehoiakim down to size, especially with his hatred for the prophets of God.

Answer 4

King Jehoiakim

Answer 5

If you read both the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah you will see why God allowed the Babyonian Captivity of the Jewish nation.

In a nutshell, they had turned against God who brought them out of 400 years of slavery in Egypt to fulfill the promise of salvation and many physical blessings made to their father Abraham. Instead they followed the heathen around them who did not know God and even worshipped the idols of the heathen. This caused them to rob, murder, and break all of His Commandments against each other.

Isa 1:2-10

2 Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth!For the LORD has spoken:"I reared children and brought them up,but they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows his master,the donkey his owner's manger,but Israel does not know,my people do not understand."
4 Ah, sinful nation,a people loaded with guilt,a brood of evildoers,children given to corruption!They have forsaken the LORD;they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
5 Why should you be beaten anymore?Why do you persist in rebellion?Your whole head is injured,your whole heart afflicted. 6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness--only wounds and welts and open sores,not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.
7 Your country is desolate,your cities burned with fire;your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you,laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. 8 The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,like a hut in a field of melons,like a city under siege. 9 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors,we would have become like Sodom,we would have been like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD,.............
(from New International Version)

Answer 6

As the chosen people of God, they will always be tested and tormented for their faith. It's a sad fact they have to deal with.

God said they would even have a tough time.

But look who, in the long run, survived. Babylon or Jerusalem?

Ha, BABYlon...they must've been big babies to name their town that...

Answer 7

they received a punishment they became evil if you read the book of Ezekiel 12:1-20 also they had to stay 70 years in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11)

Answer 8

Makes one wonder, don`t it?

The Jews, not Jerusalem were taken away, but then released.

The Theory being: God Tests.