Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Kings 25:9
He burnt the house of the Lord, which had now stood about four hundred and fifty years.
He burnt the house of the Lord, which had now stood about four hundred and fifty years.
HE BURNT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD - Compare the prophecies of Jeremiah Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 34:2; Jeremiah 38:18,...
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
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. FATE OF THE REMNANT. This again is more fully related in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:8 to Jeremiah 42:22), of which the passage before us is probably an abridgement. 2 Kings 25:8....
AND HE BURNT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. The temple, as predicted. Jeremiah 21:10. EVERY GREAT MAN'S HOUSE. The king's palace and the homes of the nobles. All houses of any pretension were destroyed. Th...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GREAT MAN'S HOUSE. See note on Proverbs 17:19....
_every great_man's _house burnt he with fire_ R.V. omits -man's". The expression in 2 Chronicles is -he burnt all the palaces thereof with fire"....
HE BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD— Josephus tells us, that the temple was burned four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days after the building of it; one thousand and sixty years, six mont...
VI. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS 25:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And in the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, it being the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of B...
_AND HE BURNT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE KING'S HOUSE, AND ALL THE HOUSES OF JERUSALEM, AND EVERY GREAT MAN'S HOUSE BURNT HE WITH FIRE._ He burnt the house of the Lord. The substructures of Solom...
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...
HE BURNT THE HOUSE... KING’S HOUSE. — Which were in the upper city. (There should be a semicolon after “king’s house.”) AND EVERY GREAT MAN’S HOUSE. — Omit _man’s._ The phrase limits the preceding one...
וַ יִּשְׂרֹ֥ף אֶת ־בֵּית ־יְהוָ֖ה וְ אֶת
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...
Great. This word is supplied from Jeremias lii. 13., and Hebrew, "great man's house." (Protestants) But Jeremias xxxix. 8., we read, they burnt the houses of the people, (Haydock) even the meanest, de...
Pause, Reader! over the perusal of these verses. Behold the very temple of the Lord amidst the general ruins. And now Zion is plowed as a field, as the prophet Micah had foretold; Micah 3:12. which pr...
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 25:8...
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt he with fire. Ver. 9. _And he burnt the house of the Lord._] Which had n...
_And he burnt the house of the Lord_ The king of Babylon, it appears, did not design to send any colonies to people Judea, and therefore ordered Jerusalem to be laid in ashes, as a nest of rebels. “At...
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...
and he burned the house of the Lord, the wonderful Temple of Solomon, whose upper structure was all of wood, AND THE KING'S HOUSE, the beautiful royal palace, AND ALL THE HOUSES OF JERUSALEM, all the...
JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...
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...
8-21 The city and temple were burnt, and, it is probable, the ark in it. By this, God showed how little he cares for the outward pomp of his worship, when the life and power of religion are neglected...
2 Kings 25:9 burned H8313 (H8799) house H1004 LORD H3068 kings H4428 house H1004 houses H1004 Jerusalem H3389 houses
3). THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEATH OF ITS LEADERS (2 KINGS 25:8). Kings began with a description of the building of the house of YHWH and of the king's house (1 Kings 5:1 to 1 Kings...
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:8 A few weeks after the fall of JERUSALEM, the full vengeance of the Babylonian king came upon the city. ⇐...
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
1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Amos 2:5;...
Burnt the house of the Lord — One of the apocryphal writers tells us, that Jeremiah got the ark out of the temple, and conveyed it to a cave in mount Nebo, 2 Macc. 2:4-5. But this is like the other ta...