George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Kings 25:4
Walls, by a subterraneous passage, to the plains of Jericho; (Rabbins) or by the horse gate, which was the most private, and, it seems, had been walled up, Ezechiel xii. 12. (Menochius)
Walls, by a subterraneous passage, to the plains of Jericho; (Rabbins) or by the horse gate, which was the most private, and, it seems, had been walled up, Ezechiel xii. 12. (Menochius)
Verse 2 Kings 25:4. 2 Kings 25:2....
THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP - Rather, “broken into,” i. e., A breach was made about midnight in the northern wall Ezekiel 9:2, and an entry effected into the second or lower city (see the 2 Kings 22:14 not...
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. J
2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremia...
AND THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP. Rather, "broken into.". breach was made in the walls through Which the enemy entered. Josephus says that the entrance was made at midnight, and Ezekiel says (9:2) that the...
BROKEN UP. breached. Before this an Egyptian force approached and the Babylonians retired (Jeremiah 37:5). The relief was only temporary, as predicted. FLED. Some codices, with Syriac, read "the men o...
_And the city was broken up_ R.V. THEN A BREACH WAS MADE IN THE CITY. The old phrase -broken up" was the same in sense as -broken through". See 2 Chronicles 24:7; Jeremiah 39:7; Micah 2:13;...
THE MEN OF WAR FLED BY NIGHT— It is difficult to conceive how the besieged could make their escape, as the Chaldees had encompassed the city. Josephus indeed gives us this account, that as the city wa...
V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7 TRANSLATION (18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of hi...
_AND THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP, AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR FLED BY NIGHT BY THE WAY OF THE GATE BETWEEN TWO WALLS, WHICH IS BY THE KING'S GARDEN: (NOW THE CHALDEES WERE AGAINST THE CITY ROUND ABOUT:) AND THE...
25:4 plain. (a-48) The _ Arabah_ . see Joshua 3:16 . In ver. 5. 'the parts of the Arabah about Jericho.' so in Jeremiah 39:5 ; Jeremiah 52:8 ....
THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP] RV 'a breach was made in the city.' Before this happened an Egyptian force had advanced to the relief of Jerusalem, and the Babylonians in consequence retired (Jeremiah 37:5),...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He marche...
BROKEN UP. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 32:1. A breach was made in the wall with battering-rams, such as are depicted in the Assyrian sculptures. The Chaldæans forced their entry on the north side of the city...
וַ תִּבָּקַ֣ע הָ עִ֗יר וְ כָל ־אַנְשֵׁ֨י
ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH B.C. 597-586 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:1 " _ Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:1 "In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all nations." - Zechariah 12:3 "An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...
THE CAPTIVITY MADE COMPLETE 2 Kings 25:1 As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute in his dates, marking the _month_ and the _day_. From Ezekiel 24:1 we gather that on th...
The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the (d) gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:...
The history in this place is but shortly related, just to manifest God's certain judgments: but very long and painful must have been the process of them in their execution. Jeremiah had been long prea...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious Jehoshap...
2 Kings 25:1...
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) an...
_The city was broken up_ It was taken by storm, the besiegers having made a breach in the wall, at which they forced their way into it. _All the men of war fled_ Being unable any longer to defend the...
1 Ierusalem is besieged. 4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out. 8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few poore labourers, into captiuitie, 13 Spoileth and...
JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...
And the city was broken up, the breach being made on the north side of the outer wall, Jeremiah 39:3, AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR, the soldiers who were defending the city, FLED BY NIGHT BY THE WAY OF THE...
THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH (vv.1-21) In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the word of the Lord, t...
1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffic...
THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP by the Chaldeans, who broke and entered the gate, JEREMIAH 39:3. THE MEN OF WAR FLED; which word is fitly supplied out of the parallel place, JEREMIAH 39:4, or out of the follow...
2 Kings 25:4 city H5892 through H1234 (H8735) men H582 war H4421 night H3915 way H1870 gate H8179 walls...
AND THE CITY Times of the Gentiles. (2 Kings 25:1); (Daniel 2:29); (Luke 21:24); (Revelation 16:19)....
CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael, Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin. CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...
2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...
_And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._ CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...
THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT
2 Kings 25:5; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:25;...