Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 25:17
Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references. The height of the capital (“three cubits”) must be corrected, in accordance with those passages, to “five cubits.”
Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references. The height of the capital (“three cubits”) must be corrected, in accordance with those passages, to “five cubits.”
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....
THE HEIGHT OF THE ONE PILLAR. See note on 1 Kings 7:15. WREATHEN WORK. network....
_and the chapiter upon it_was _brass_ R.V. AND A CHAPITER OF BRASS WAS UPON IT. The sentence is not meant to state of what material the chapiter was, but that it was there on the top of the pillar. _w...
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 THE POTS, AND THE SHOVELS, AND THE SNUFFERS, AND THE SPOONS, AND ALL THE VESSELS OF BRASS WHEREWITH THEY MINISTERED, TOOK THEY AWAY._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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...
THREE CUBITS. — An error of transcription for _five._ Five cubits was the height of the capital according to 1 Kings 7:16; Jeremiah 52:22; 2 Chronicles 3:15. THE WREATHEN WORK. — _Lattice-work_ ...
שְׁמֹנֶה֩ עֶשְׂרֵ֨ה אַמָּ֜ה קֹומַ֣ת ׀ הָ עַמּ֣וּד...
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 TEMPLE DESPOILED 2 Kings 25:13 The Temple, after 420 years of varying fortune, was burned to the ground, and the remainder of its treasures carried off. A few years after, Nebuchadnezzar set up a...
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...
Here we have the final account of Judah as a kingdom. So that from Joshua's days, in which it began to be formed, to the last of its kings, Zedeciah, it stood about 850 or 860 years. And the church's...
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 25:13...
The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round a...
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...
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter, the capital, UPON IT WAS BRASS, AND THE HEIGHT OF THE CHAPITER THREE CUBITS, or five cubits over all, 1 Kings 7:16; 2 Chronicles 3:1...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 25:17 height H6967 one H259 pillar H5982 eighteen H8083 H6240 cubits H520 capital H3805 bronze H5178 height
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...
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 7:15; 1 Kings 7:16; Jeremiah 52:21...