Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 25:25
Came — Moved with envy to see so mean a person advanced into their place. Ten men — Ten captains or officers, and under each of them many soldiers.
Came — Moved with envy to see so mean a person advanced into their place. Ten men — Ten captains or officers, and under each of them many soldiers.
Verse 2 Kings 25:25. _SMOTE GEDALIAH_] This was at an entertainment which Gedaliah had made for them; see Jeremiah 41:1, c. He was not content with this murder, but slew fourscore more, who were comi...
Jeremiah gives this history with much fullness of detail Jer. 41–43....
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....
SEVENTH MONTH. Afterward observed as. fast. Compare Zechariah 7:5....
_in the seventh month_ Jerusalem was overthrown in the fifth month (see above verse 8), so that but two months had elapsed, and Gedaliah's influence had begun, even in that brief period, to inspire mu...
B. THE APPOINTMENT AND ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH 25:22-26 TRANSLATION (22) As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them G...
_BUT IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, THAT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH, THE SON OF ELISHAMA, OF THE SEED ROYAL, CAME, AND TEN MEN WITH HIM, AND SMOTE GEDALIAH, THAT HE DIED, AND THE JEWS AND THE...
25:25 (d-0) With vers. 25-26, compare Jeremiah 41:1-3 ; Jeremiah 43:4-7 ....
IN THE SEVENTH MONTH] subsequently observed as a fast (Zechariah 7:5)....
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...
(22-26) An extract from Jeremiah 40-63, relating to the people left in the land....
IN THE SEVENTH MONTH. — Only two months after the fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:8). SMOTE GEDALIAH. — At a friendly meal in the governor’s own house (Jeremiah 41:1). Perhaps, as Josephus says, when h...
וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בַּ † חֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ שְּׁבִיעִ֗י...
GEDALIAH B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:22 " _ Vedi che son un che piango._ " - DANTE, "Inferno." "No rather steel thy melting heart To act the martyr s sternest part, To watch with firm, unshrinking eye Th...
THE REMNANT FLEE TO EGYPT 2 Kings 25:22 Thus at last the city, which had been full of people, sat solitary, bewailed by Jeremiah in exquisite elegies. The poorest only were left, under Gedaliah, the...
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...
Jeremiah had told Baruch that his life should be given for a prey, and here we find certain of the people were preserved, Jeremiah 45:5. It was the mercy of God, in the midst of judgment, to incline t...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVENTH MONTH,.... Not of Gedaliah's government, but of the year, the month Tisri or September, near two months after the destruction of Jerusalem; the Jews say fifty two da...
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the...
_Ishmael, of the seed royal, came_ Moved with envy at Gedaliah's advancement, and the happy settlement of the people under him; _and ten men with him_ That is, ten captains or officers, and under each...
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...
But it came to pass in the seventh month, only two months after the destruction of Jerusalem, THAT ISHMAEL, THE SON OF NETHANIAH, the grandson of the secretary of state under King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah...
GEDALIAH GOVERNOR OF JUDAH...
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...
THE SEED ROYAL: _ Heb._ of the kingdom...
22-30 The king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah to be the governor and protector of the Jews left their land. But the things of their peace were so hidden from their eyes, that they knew not when they w...
THE SEED ROYAL; and therefore moved with envy, to see so mean a person advanced into their place. See this history more fully described, JER 41. TEN MEN, to wit, ten captains or officers, and under ea...
2 Kings 25:25 seventh H7637 month H2320 Ishmael H3458 son H1121 Nethaniah H5418 son H1121 Elishama H476 royal H4410
SEVENTH MONTH That is, October....
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:22 GEDALIAH, the new GOVERNOR of the territory that once was Judah, was the grandson of King Josiah’s secretary SHAPHAN. His assassination caused a ge
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 11:1; Jeremiah 40:15; Jeremiah 40:16; Jeremiah 41:1;...