until the day of his death, all the days of his life The latter of these clauses (absent from LXX) is probably either an addition to, or originally a substitution for, the former, in order to avoid the inauspicious ending with the word death.
Verse Jeremiah 52:34. _AND - THERE WAS A CONTINUAL DIET GIVEN HIM_] This was probably a ration allowed by the king for the support of Jehoiachin's household. For other particulars, 2 Kings 25:30. _A...
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...
UNTIL, &C. Note the items above, which are supplemental to 2 Kings 25....
C. The Release of Jehoiachin Jeremiah 52:31-34 TRANSLATION (31) And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Jud...
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his THERE WAS A CONTINUAL DIET GIVEN HIM ... EVERY DAY...
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....
וַ אֲרֻחָתֹ֗ו אֲרֻחַת֩ תָּמִ֨יד נִתְּנָה ־לֹּ֜ו...
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...
And [for] his food, there was a (q) continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. (q) That is he had allowance in the cour...
REFLECTIONS READER! what vast subjects open to our most devout meditation, while going over in the perusal those prophetical writings of the mournful Prophet Jeremiah. How gracious to his Church and p...
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...
AND [FOR] HIS DIET, THERE WAS A CONTINUAL DIET GIVEN HIM OF THE KING OF BABYLON,.... This seems to design not food only, and for himself, which he had daily at the king's table, but all necessary prov...
_And changed his prison garments_ This has been considered by some an act of generosity in Evil-merodach, giving the captive king new garments, more suitable to his royal dignity than those he wore in...
DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
And for his diet there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life. Cf 2 Kings 25:27. The same Lord who humbles the...
EVERY DAY A PORTION: _ Heb._ the matter of the day in his day...
31-34 See this history of king Jehoiachin in 2 Kings 25:27-12. Those under oppression will find it is not in vain for them to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. Our times are in...
He treated him like a prince, with a respect becoming his former state, took care both for his habit and diet: for his habit, that it should be decent, such as became a person of his quality, though a...
Jeremiah 52:34 provisions H737 regular H8548 ration H737 given H5414 (H8738) king H4428 Babylon H894 portion...
THE RESTORATION OF JEHOIACHIN TO A POSITION OF HONOUR (JEREMIAH 52:31). When Nebuchadrezzar crushed the rebellion of Jehoiakim in 597 BC, with Jehoiachin coming to the throne as the Davidic king while...
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...
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...
_Lifted up the head of Jehoiachin._ JEHOIACHIN’S CHANGE OF FORTUNE What changes may occur in life: who can tell what we may come to? After thirty-seven years there arose a king who took a fancy to Je...
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 52:32 Whatever Evil-merodach’s motives, JEHOIACHIN was treated well AS LONG AS HE LIVED. David’s descendants, like the rest of the people, waited in exile for the 70 years to...
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,...
2 Samuel 9:10; Luke 11:3; Matthew 6:11...
All the days of his life — Here ends the history of the kingdom of Judah. I shall only observe the severe judgment of God upon this people, whose kingdom was made up of the two tribes of Judah and Ben...