Moreover, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, commanding that he be blinded, probably by passing a heated metal rod before his open eyes, and bound him with chains, doubly fettered hand and foot, to carry him to Babylon, in a most shameful captivity.
Verse Jeremiah 39:7. _BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS_] Margin: "Two brazen chains;" one for his hands, and the other for his feet....
Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two accounts are slight....
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...
PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES. So that Ezekiel was quite correct when he said that Zedekiah should be taken to Babylon, though he should not see it (Ezekiel 12:13). WITH CHAINS. with two fetters. TO CARRY...
See introd. note and summary to ch....
_Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes_ See on Jeremiah 34:3 and cp. Judges 16:21. "Putting out the eyes has been at all times a common Oriental punishment.… The frequency of the punishment in the time...
HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES— See chap. Jeremiah 52:11 where it is added, that he put him in prison till the day of his death. Thus two prophesies were fulfilled, which seemed at first hearing to contra...
B. The Capture of the King Jeremiah 39:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw them, they fled by going out at night from the city by way of...
_MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS, TO CARRY HIM TO BABYLON._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
39:7 brass, (b-15) As 2 Kings 25:7 ....
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...
See on Jeremiah 34:3. Putting out the eyes was a common punishment in the East. 8-10. Fate of the city. If we had only this narrative we should suppose that Nebuzaradan was present in person, but Jer...
MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH’S EYES. — The special form of punishment is noticeable as fulfilling the two prophecies — (1) that Zedekiah should see the king of Babylon and be taken to that city (Jerem...
וְ אֶת ־עֵינֵ֥י צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ עִוֵּ֑ר וַ יַּא
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...
What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of reject...
_NON-ACCEPTANCE OF CHASTISEMENT_ ‘Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes.’ Jeremiah 39:7 What are the speakings of this ‘Moreover’ to us? It says to us— I. REJECT NOT LIMITED CHASTISEMENT OR TRIAL,...
Here was an accumulation of misery: the king had his eyes pulled out, (117) after having been a spectator of the slaughter of his own sons! He then saw heaped together the dead bodies of his own offsp...
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...
MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES,.... By what means is not certain; however, hereby the prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled, that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, as they did, before they we...
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. Ver. 7. See on 2 Kings 25:7 ....
_They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls_ Betwixt the wall and the outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5. S...
WITH CHAINS: _ Heb._ with two brasen chains, or fetters...
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...
Thus the two prophecies were fulfilled; that of this prophet, JEREMIAH 34:4, that Zedekiah should not _die by the sword_; and that of Ezekiel, that _he should not see Babylon_, though he should die th...
Jeremiah 39:7 out H5786 (H8765) Zedekiahs H6667 eyes H5869 bound H631 (H8799) fetters H5178 carry H935 ...
BABYLON Here began the "times of the Gentiles," the mark of which is that Jerusalem is "trodden down of the Gentiles," that is, Under Gentile overlordship. This has been true from the time of Nebucha...
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 39:6 Nebuchadnezzar was harsher than ZEDEKIAH feared his countrymen would be (Jeremiah 38:19)....
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 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13; Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 32:5; Jerem