_IN HIS DAYS NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME UP, AND JEHOIAKIM BECAME HIS SERVANT THREE YEARS: THEN HE TURNED AND REBELLED AGAINST HIM._ Nebuchadnezzar. The name as written on the monuments is Nabukudurri-uzur, and signifies, according to Sir H. Rawlinson, 'Nebo protects the youth;' according t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SENT AGAINST HIM BANDS OF THE CHALDEES, AND BANDS OF THE SYRIANS, AND BANDS OF THE MOABITES, AND BANDS OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND SENT THEM AGAINST JUDAH TO DESTROY IT, ACCORDING TO_ _ THE WORD OF THE LORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS._ The Lord sent against him ban... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY AT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD CAME THIS UPON JUDAH, TO REMOVE THEM OUT OF HIS SIGHT, FOR THE SINS OF MANASSEH, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE DID;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JEHOIAKIM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS: AND JEHOIACHIN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. This phraseology can mean nothing more than that he died, because he was not buried with his royal ancestors; and whether he fell in battle, or his body was subjected to posthumous... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING OF EGYPT CAME NOT AGAIN ANY MORE OUT OF HIS LAND: FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE_ _ RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE RIVER EUPHRATES ALL THAT PERTAINED TO THE KING OF EGYPT._ The king of Egypt - i:e., Pharaoh-nechoh. FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO... [ Continue Reading ]
_JEHOIACHIN WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED IN JERUSALEM THREE MONTHS. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS NEHUSHTA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELNATHAN OF JERUSALEM._ Jehoiachin - i:e., God appointed; contracted into Jeconiah and Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24). EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HIS FATHER HAD DONE._ He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Untaught by experience, and deaf to the prophetic warnings, he pursued the evil courses which had brought so many disasters upon the royal famil... [ Continue Reading ]
_AT THAT TIME THE SERVANTS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND THE CITY WAS BESIEGED._ At that time - within three months after his accession to the throne; it was the spring of the year (2 Chronicles 36:10): so early did he indicate a feeling hostile to the interests o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME AGAINST THE CITY, AND HIS SERVANTS DID BESIEGE IT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CARRIED OUT THENCE ALL THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE TREASURES OF THE KING'S HOUSE, AND CUT IN PIECES ALL THE VESSELS OF GOLD WHICH SOLOMON KING OF ISRAEL HAD MADE IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, AS THE LORD HAD SAID._ As the Lord had said - (cf. 2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6; Jer... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CARRIED AWAY ALL JERUSALEM, AND ALL THE PRINCES, AND ALL THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, EVEN TEN_ _ THOUSAND CAPTIVES, AND ALL THE CRAFTSMEN AND SMITHS: NONE REMAINED, SAVE THE POOREST SORT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND._ All the craftsmen and smiths, х_ KAAL_ (H3605) _ HECHAARAASH_ (H2796) _ WªHAMA... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CARRIED AWAY JEHOIACHIN TO BABYLON, AND THE KING'S MOTHER, AND THE KING'S WIVES, AND HIS OFFICERS, AND THE MIGHTY OF THE LAND, THOSE CARRIED HE INTO CAPTIVITY FROM JERUSALEM TO BABYLON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING OF BABYLON MADE MATTANIAH HIS FATHER'S BROTHER KING IN HIS STEAD, AND CHANGED HIS NAME TO ZEDEKIAH._ Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead. Adhering to his former policy of maintaining a show of monarchy, Nebuchadnezzar appointed the third and youngest son of Josiah (1 Chro... [ Continue Reading ]
_ZEDEKIAH WAS TWENTY AND ONE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED ELEVEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS HAMUTAL, THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF LIBNAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THROUGH THE ANGER OF THE LORD IT CAME TO PASS IN JERUSALEM AND JUDAH, UNTIL HE HAD CAST THEM OUT FROM HIS PRESENCE, THAT ZEDEKIAH REBELLED AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON._ Through the anger of the Lord ... he ... cast them out from his presence - i e., in the course of God's righteous providence... [ Continue Reading ]