Allowance - From the treasury, in order to enable him to maintain the state proper to his rank, and in addition to his food at the royal table. Jehoiachin, to the day of his death, lived in peace and comfort at the court of Babylon (compare Jeremiah 52:34).
Verse 2 Kings 25:30. _A CONTINUAL ALLOWANCE GIVEN HIM OF THE KING_] He lived in a _regal style_, and had his _court_ even in the city of Babylon, being supplied with every requisite by the munificenc...
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
JEHOIACHIN RESTORED TO HONOUR. Nebuchadrezzar succeeded his father 605 B.C., and reigned till 562 B.C. The first captivity took place thirty-seven years before Jehoiachin's release, or about 598 B.C....
_And his_[R.V. FOR HIS] _allowance_ i.e. He was assigned a regular amount in money or in kind for the keeping of such attendants as a captive king might be supposed to require. _a daily rate for every...
C. THE RELEASE OF KING JEHOIACHIN 25:27-30 TRANSLATION (27) And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh da...
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...
(27-30) The captivity of Jehoiachin ameliorated by the new king of Babylon. (See Jeremiah 52:31.)...
HIS ALLOWANCE. — For the maintenance of his little court. Literally, _And_ (_as for_)_ his allowance a continual allowance was given him from the king, a day’s portion in its day._ ALL THE DAYS OF HI...
וַ אֲרֻחָתֹ֗ו אֲרֻחַ֨ת תָּמִ֧יד נִתְּנָה ־לֹּ֛ו...
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...
And his (o) allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. (o) Meaning, that he had standing in the court....
His life, may be referred to Evilmerodach, unless Joachin was involved in his disgrace, and perished at the same time. Perhaps the king of Juda did not always eat at the table of Evilmerodach, but rec...
REFLECTIONS READER! we are brought to the final close of Judah's history as a kingdom in this Chapter; and therefore let us pause over the subject, and in beholding the desolated state of Zion as a c...
It is hardly possible to read the wonderful change in the circumstances of Jehoiachin, who, after so long a period as thirty-seven years lying in a prison, is brought forth to liberty, and to the king...
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 25:27...
And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. Ver. 30. _And his allowance was a continual allowance._] So is or might be e...
_Evil-merodach, king of Babylon_ “Nebuchadnezzar, the father of Evil-merodach, died in the year of the world 3442, and before Christ 562, after he had reigned from the death of his father, according t...
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 his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a regular income upon which he could depend, A DAILY RATE FOR EVERY DAY, ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE. This incident was a favorable sign...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 25:30 provisions H737 regular H8548 ration H737 given H5414 (H8738) king H4428 portion H1697 each H3117 day
THE PARTIAL RESTORATION OF JEHOIACHIN, IN BABYLON (2 KINGS 25:27). There can be no question that the purpose of this final narrative is to indicate that YHWH's hand was still on the house of David. It...
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 seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin._ JEHOIACHIN AS A VICTIM OF TYRANNIC DESPOTISM AND AS AN OBJECT OF DELIVERING MERCY The incident here recorded pre...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:27 EVIL-MERODACH was Nebuchadnezzar’s son and successor. His release of the Judean king FROM PRISON in 561 B.C. gives the reader some hope that there is still a future fo
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
Acts 6:1; Daniel 1:5; Genesis 48:15; Genesis 48:16; Luke 11:3;...
All the days of his life — Let none say, they shall never see good again, because they have long seen little but evil. The most afflicted know not what blessed turn providence may yet give to their af...