2 Kings 25:8

_AND IN THE FIFTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, WHICH IS THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON, CAME NEBUZARADAN, CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD, A SERVANT OF THE KING OF BABYLON, UNTO JERUSALEM:_ On the seventh day of the month ... came Nebuzar-adan - (cf. Jeremiah 52:12.) In attempting to, reconcile these two passages, it must be supposed, either that, though he had set out on the seventh day, he did not arrive in Jerusalem until the tenth day, or that he did not put his orders in execution until that day....

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....

Verse 2 Kings 25:8. _IN THE FIFTH MONTH_] On the _seventh day of the fifth_ _month_, (answering to _Wednesday, Aug_. 24,) Nebuzar-adan made his entry into the city; and having spent two days in making provision, on the _tenth day_ of the same month, (_Saturday, Aug_. 27,) he set fire to the temple and the king's palace, and the houses of the nobility, and burnt them to the ground; Jeremiah 52:13, compared with Jeremiah 39:8. Thus the temple was destroyed in the _eleventh_ year of Zedekiah, the _nineteenth_ of Nebuchadnezzar, the _first_ of the XLVIIIth Olympiad, in the _one hundred and sixtieth_ current year of the era of Nabonassar, _four hundred and_ twenty-f...

THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR - 586 B.C., if we count from the real date of his accession (604 B.C.); but 587 B.C., if, with the Jews, we regard him as beginning to reign when he was sent by his father to recover Syria and gained the battle of Carchemish (in 605 B.C.). CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD - literally, “the chief of the executioners” Genesis 37:36....

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

Ver. 8-12. AND IN THE FIFTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE MONTH,.... In Jeremiah 52:12 it is the tenth day of the month; which, how to be reconciled, Jeremiah 52:12 WHICH IS THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR; who, according to Ptolemy's canon, reigned forty three years; Metasthenes u says forty five; and from hence, to the end of 2 Kings 25:12 facts are related as in Jeremiah 52:12 whither the reader is referred. u De Judicio Temp. Annal. Pers. fol. 221. 2....

FIFTH That is, August....

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

AND IN THE FIFTH MONTH AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY. August. "It was the tenth day of the fifth month,. day memorable in Jewish annals as. day of misery, when the siege of Titus closed in like manner,--a day tragical in European annals as the tenth of August,--that Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, came with orders from Nebuchadnezzar to put the finishing stroke to the work of destruction." For. month the disposition to be made of the captured city seems to have been held in suspense....