Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 52:30
All the persons were four thousand and six hundred — How amazingly were the Jews diminished, that this handful was all who were carried captive!
All the persons were four thousand and six hundred — How amazingly were the Jews diminished, that this handful was all who were carried captive!
Verse Jeremiah 52:30. Jeremiah 52:28....
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...
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...
THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. Four years after the fall of Jerusalem. Another contact of Bible and secular chronology, 473 B.C. See App-86....
Enumeration of Nebuchadnezzar's captives 28. _in the seventh year_ These _vv_. are absent from the LXX and from 2 Kings 25 and apparently come out of a separate document from the rest. For "seventh" w...
B. Details About the Deportations Jeremiah 52:28-30 TRANSLATION (28) These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In the seventh year 3,023 Jews; in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar,...
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and si...
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....
IN THE THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR... — There is no record of this final deportation, five years after the capture of the city, in the historical books. It probably followed on the conq...
בִּ שְׁנַ֨ת שָׁלֹ֣שׁ וְ עֶשְׂרִים֮ לִ נְבֽוּכ
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
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...
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...
IN THE THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR,.... In this year of his reign, the Jews say m, Tyre was delivered into his hands; and he carried off the Jews in Moab, Ammon, and the neighbouring na...
_This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive_ “These verses are not inserted in 2 Kings 25. Nor are they to be found here, according to the Roman and Alexandrian editions of the LXX.;...
DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons; all the persons evidently of the tribe...
24-30 The leaders of the Jews caused them to err; but now they are, in particular, made monuments of Divine justice. Here is an account of two earlier captivities. This people often were wonders both...
Of this we read nothing in holy writ; some judge it to have been upon occasion of Ishmael's killing Gedaliah, but this was four years after the taking of the city, and we are not certain what at this...
Jeremiah 52:30 twenty-third H6242 H7969 year H8141 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 Nebuzaradan H5018 captain H7227 guard H2876 captive...
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...
THE EXECUTION OF JUDAH'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS AND THE EXILE OF ITS LEADING CITIZENS (JEREMIAH 52:24). Nebuzaradan now selected out what remained of the leading citizens in Jerusalem for exe...
CONTENTS: A retrospect: overthrow and capture of Judah. The latter days of Jehoiachin. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah, Zephaniah, Evil-merodach. CONCLU...
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...
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
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 52:28 NEBUCHADNEZZAR took captives from Judah in stages. Many people had fled to other nations (Jeremiah 44:1,...
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...
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,...
Jeremiah 52:15; Jeremiah 6:9...