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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 52:15

Poor. He took those of the city, and left the poor of the country, ver. 16. (Calmet) --- Alexandrian Septuagint omits this verse, which Grabe inserts: 16. "And the rest of the people, the chief cook or general, left for," &c. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 52:15. _THOSE THAT FELL AWAY_] The deserters to the Chaldeans during the siege....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CERTAIN OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE, AND - Omit (as in 2 Kings 25:11), being inserted through some confusion with Jeremiah 52:16. MULTITUDE - Possibly workmen. The object of Nebuchadnezzar was to people...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 52. HISTORICAL APPENDIX. This is taken from 2 Kings 24:18 ff., and gives an account of the capture of Jerusalem, etc., in 586, _i.e._ of the fulfilment of Jeremiah's repeated declarations. Ex...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE. This is supplemental to 2 Kings 25:12. Hebrew. _dal =_ impoverished. See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11. Compare Nehemiah 1:3....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Severities following upon the capture 12. From this to Jeremiah 52:23, a part of the narrative which has been summarized in Jeremiah 39:8-10, we find in almost verbal accord with 2 Kings 25:8-17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The whole _v_. is omitted by the LXX. The words "of the poorest sort of the people and" seem to have come in from the next _v_. through an error of sight on the part of a copyist. The three classes of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 52:12-16 TRANSLATION (12) In the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the peo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HISTORICAL APPENDIX (PROBABLY BY THE COMPILER OF THE BOOK) This chapter is substantially the same as Jeremiah 39 (see notes there), but adds particulars relating to the Temple vessels (Jeremiah 52:17....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CERTAIN OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE. — Omitted in 2 Kings 25:11, and probably inserted here by an error of transcription, as the next verse states that the “poor of the land” were left in their own coun...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מִ דַּלֹּ֨ות הָ עָ֜ם וְֽ אֶת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last chapter of the Book of Jeremiah consists of a historical appendix written, as the final words of the previous chapter show, by another hand. It first gives a brief account of the capture of t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The last chapter forms no part of the book of Jeremiah, properly so called. We find in it events relative to the destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple. After the remarks we have made, that which...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE [CERTAIN] OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE,.... That is, of the city, as distinct from the poor of the land of Judea he left, afterwards observe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive certain of the poor of the people and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 52:15 Nebuzaradan H5018 captain H7227 guard H2876 captive H1540 (H8689) poor H1803 people H5971 rest H3499

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY THE PART RESTORATION OF THE DAVIDIC KING (JEREMIAH 52:1). In this narrative, which on the whole is a repetition of 2 Kin...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE TEMPLE FOLLOWED BY THE TAKING OF EXILES AND THE TREASURES OF THE TEMPLE TO BABYLON (JEREMIAH 52:12). Having taken Jerusalem Nebuzaradan, the commander of the ki...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A retrospect: overthrow and capture of Judah. The latter days of Jehoiachin. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah, Zephaniah, Evil-merodach. CONCLU...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 52:1. _Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign._ This and the two following verses are taken from 2 Kings 24:18; and the seven succeeding verses are taken from the thirty...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 52:1 Conclusion: The Fall of Jerusalem. The book ends by describing Jerusalem’s fall and Zedekiah’s blinding (vv. Jeremiah 52:1), the destr

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter forms a historical appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Its AUTHORSHIP is conjectural. They who think Jeremiah penned it urge that the closing words of chap. 5...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter prove that it is not an independent narrative, but the concluding part of a history of the kings of Judah. It agrees almost word for word with 2 Kings 24:18-12,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 15:2; Zechariah 14:2...

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