And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
This should have been the history of king Jehoiachin's reign, but, alas! it is only the history of king Jehoiachin's captivity, as it is called, Eze 1:2. He came to the crown, not to have the honour of wearing it, but the shame of losing it. Ideo tantum venerat, ut exiret - He came in only to go out. I. His reign was short and inconsiderable.
Commenting on 2 Kings 24:8-20
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house,.... The gates of the city being thrown open to him, he entered and plundered the temple, and the royal palace, and took from thence all the riches thereof: and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made...
2Ki 24:11 During the siege he came himself to punish Jehoiakim’s revolt in the person of his successor.