Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Jeremiah 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Verse Jeremiah 39:2. _THE ELEVENTH YEAR - IN THE FOURTH MONTH_] This month in the Hebrew calendar is called _Thammuz_, and commences with the first new moon of our _July_. The siege had lasted just _e...
CHAPTER 39 _ 1. The fall of Jerusalem and the fate of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 39:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's kindness to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:10) 3. Ebed-melech's reward (Jeremiah 39:15)...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM: JEREMIAH SPARED. This paragraph well illustrates the growth of the OT text; _cf._ 2 Kings 25:1 (also reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4, from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...
BROKEN UP. Compare Ch. Jeremiah 52:6. which explains that provisions had failed before then....
Jeremiah 39:3. _and sat_ to carry out the matters arising from the capture. _Nergal-sharezer, etc_.] From the Eng. it would appear that there are six princes mentioned by name. In fact however there a...
III. THE PROPHET CONFIRMED Jeremiah 39:1-18 For years Jeremiah had been preaching that Jerusalem would fall to the enemy from the north, the Chaldeans. Only through national submission to Nebuchadnezz...
THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM (11TH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH) The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25. 1-7. The city taken. Zedekiah's fate...
בְּ עַשְׁתֵּֽי ־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ לְ צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ...
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was mad...
[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken (a) up. (a) The gates and walls were broken down....
Fifth. The parallel passages and other editions read ninth. Some pretend that (Calmet) the city was taken on the 5th of the 4th month, and after being pillaged was burnt on the 7th (4 Kings xxiv. 8.)...
See here the confirmation of God's word; and the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy: and behold in it also, a full refutation of the false and lying prophets. And thus, Reader, depend upon it, will be...
It then follows, _In the eleventh year, in the fourth month, the city was broken up _We hence see that the city was besieged for a year and half; for there was the whole of the tenth year, and then ad...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
[AND] IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH, IN THE FOURTH MONTH,.... The month Tammuz, which answers to part of June, and part of July: THE NINTH [DAY] OF THE MONTH, THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP; or taken by s...
Jeremiah 39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up. Ver. 2. _And in the eleventh year._] See on 2 Kings 25:2. The sacking...
_In the ninth year of Zedekiah_, &c. See notes on 2 Kings 25:1. _And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate_ Or, _the gate of the centre_, as Blaney translates it,...
JERUSALEM TAKEN...
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up, the enemies gained an entry into the city by battering down a part of the wall. The siege...
1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his...
The siege lasted a year and half, for it was the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year before it was taken: it is said here to be broken up, because their way of taking fortified places then was by...
Jeremiah 39:2 eleventh H6249 H6240 year H8141 Zedekiah H6667 fourth H7243 month H2320 ninth H8672 month H2320 city
FOURTH MONTH That is, July....
CONTENTS: Final captivity of Judah in accordance with the prophets. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim, Rab-saris, Rab-mag, Nebuzaradan, Jeremiah, Nebushas...
Jeremiah 39:1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged Jerusalem._ On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their lot,...
_In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon._ THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAH The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most tragi...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 39:2 ELEVENTH YEAR... FOURTH MONTH. Perhaps June/July 587 B.C. The siege lasted over two years. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_Cf_. notes _in loc_. chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans broke...
EXPOSITION This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, and Jeremiah 39:4) have been insert...
Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and began their siege. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah...
2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 25:4; Ezekiel 33:21; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 52