2 Kings 25:11

_AND ALL THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEES, THAT WERE WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD, BRAKE DOWN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM ROUND ABOUT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

8-21 The city and temple were burnt, and, it is probable, the ark in it. By this, God showed how little he cares for the outward pomp of his worship, when the life and power of religion are neglected. The walls of Jerusalem were thrown down, and the people carried captive to Babylon. The vessels of the temple were carried away. When the things signified were sinned away, what should the signs stand there for? It was righteous with God to deprive those of the benefit of his worship, who had preferred false worships before it; those that would have many altars, now shall have none. As the Lord spared not the angels that sinned, as he doomed the whole race of fallen men to the grave, and all unbelievers to hell, and as he spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, we need not wonder at any miseries he may bring upon guilty nations, churches, or persons....

THE FUGITIVES ... - It was from a fear of the treatment which he would receive at the hands of these deserters that Zedekiah persisted in defending the city to the last Jeremiah 38:19....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT BEHIND. RELEASE FROM PRISON OF JEHOIACHIN. 2 KINGS 25:1 LAST SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM. The open rebellion of Zedekiah was followed almost immediately by the advance into J

2 Kings 25:8...

3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 36:17)_ 2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22) 3. Jehoiachin's captivity and release (2 Kings 25:27) Zedekiah's rebellion was a great offence. He had sworn in Jehovah's name to be loyal to Nebuchadnezzar (2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:13). We find more light thrown u

DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. FATE OF THE REMNANT. This again is more fully related in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:8 to Jeremiah 42:22), of which the passage before us is probably an abridgement. 2 Kings 25:8. Nebuzar-adan treated Jeremiah with marked favour (Jeremiah 40:8). 2 KINGS 25:22. Gedaliah established himself at Mizpah in Benjamin (Joshua 8:26). His murder by Ishmael was the ruin of the remnant, which escaped to Egypt, taking Jeremiah with t

THE FUGITIVES THAT FELL AWAY TO THE KING. Those who had been satisfied of the folly of resisting him, and had quitted Jerusalem before or during the siege. There were two factions during all these troublous times, one that insisted on peace with the Babylonians, and one that was for war. The remaining population of Jerusalem, the fugitives and the people of the land, were all marched to the Babylonian king, and carried into the captivity....

_Now the rest_[R.V. AND THE RESIDUE] _of the people_ The change is in accordance with Jeremiah 52:15 where the same people are spoken of. _and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon_ R.V. AND THOSE THAT FELL AWAY, THAT FELL TO THE KING OF BABYLON. This alteration is also from A.V. in the parallel passage just referred to, where the Hebrew is the same as here. _with the remnant_[R.V. RESIDUE] _of the multitude_ Also R.V. adds CAPTIVE after -carry away" at the close of the verse. Thus the two parallel and nearly identical passages are brought as closely into agreement in the English as they are in the original. Nebuzar-adan took the residue of the better sort, both those who still were faithful to their country and those who had gone over to the Babylonian side, and the residue of the common folks, who were likel

VI. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS 25:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And in the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, it being the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard the servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem. (9) And he burned the house of the LORD and the house of the king and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire. (10) And all the army of the Chaldeans which was with the captain of the guard broke down the wall of Jerusalem round about. (11) And the rest of the people who remained in the city, both the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan carried away. (12) But the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land to cultivate vineyards and till the soil. (13) And the bronze pillars which were in the hou...