Chapter 24

² And the Lord sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken by His servants the prophets. ³ Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done (2 Kings 24:2-3)

In the natural raiding, bands were coming against Judah, but in the realm of the Spirit, the raiding bands were coming because of the sins of Judah and the word of the Lord against them. Many of the problems that you see in the natural have a spiritual root to them.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. (2 Kings 24:8)

2 Chronicles 36:9 says that Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king. The difference between these two accounts is probably due to the error of a copyist in Chronicles.

And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said. (2 Kings 24:13)

This tells us what happened to the furniture and precious things of Solomon’s temple. Some ancient traditions tell us that Prophet Jeremiah hid the ark of the covenant before this so that it was not among the things that were cut up and carried back to Babylon.

Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. (2 Kings 24:20)
Jeremiah tells us that there were many false prophets in those days who preached a message of victory and triumph to Zedekiah, and he believed them instead of Jeremiah and other godly prophets like him. Therefore, he rebelled against the king of Babylon.