This marks the exact time, that it was early in the campaign, while the outlying fortresses still occupied the attention of Nebuchadnezzars army. Lachish and Azekah were strong cities in the plain toward Egypt and must be taken before the Chaldseans could march upon Jerusalem: otherwise the Egyptians might collect there and fall upon them.
Verse Jeremiah 34:7. _AGAINST LACHISH, AND AGAINST AZEKAH_] These were two cities of Judah of considerable importance: they had been strongly fortified by Rehoboam, 2 Chronicles 11:9; 2 Chronicles 32...
CHAPTER 34:1-7 Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah The besieging army was before the walls of Jerusalem when the prophet is commanded to go to the king and tell him that the city will soon be burned. He announce...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND OF ZEDEKIAH. In the course of the siege (588- 6), Jeremiah is sent to Zedekiah to tell him that the city will be taken and destroyed, that he will be brought before Nebuchadr...
LACHISH. Now _Tell el Hesy,_ south of Eglon, ten and. half miles from Eleutheropolis. AZEKAH. Now _Tell Zakariya,_ in the valley of Elah. JEREMIAH: Page: 1066...
Prophecy of the burning of the city and the captivity of Zedekiah....
_all … that were left_ The LXX give some support to the probability that this part of the _v_. is an interpolation, seeing that "all" resolves itself into two only. _Lachish_ now _Tell el-Ḥesy_, about...
I. AN INCIDENT DURING THE FINAL SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Jeremiah 34:1-22 Chapter 34 contains two messages delivered during the final siege of Jerusalem. The first of these messages is directed to king Zede...
When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of...
JEREMIAH'S EIGHTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH). THE FATE OF ZEDEKIAH. THE TREATMENT OF HEBREW SLAVES Early in the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar, whose scheme of conquest included all the region as fa...
AGAINST LACHISH, AND AGAINST AZEKAH] IN SW. of Judah near the border of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar would not venture to advance into that country on his career of conquest, leaving these fortresses untaken...
AGAINST LACHISH, AND AGAINST AZEKAH... — The two cities are named in this book for the first time. Lachish was one of the strongest towns of the Amorites in the time of Joshua (Joshua 10:3; Joshua 10:...
וְ חֵ֣יל מֶֽלֶךְ ־בָּבֶ֗ל נִלְחָמִים֙ עַל ־יְ
CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....
Chapter s thirty-four and thirty-five contain prophecies of the siege. The armies of Nebuchadnezzar were round about Jerusalem, and Jehovah declared to Zedekiah that the king of Babylon would be succe...
_Lachis, near Hebron. Detachments were sent to different places._...
While the Prophet used faithfulness, he forgot not exhortation. It is the duty of ministers to admonish as well as reprove. And never surely was there a servant of the Lord more tender, in his persuas...
He again repeats that Jerusalem was then surrounded by _the army of the king of Babylon, _as well as the other cities of Judah, which he names, even _Lachish _and _Azekah. _He seems, therefore, indire...
On the occasion of renewed iniquity the prophet announces the certain ruin of the people. Nevertheless Zedekiah, though carried captive to Babylon, should die there in peace. [1] In the succeeding Cha...
WHEN THE KING OF BABYLON'S ARMY FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM,.... Had laid close siege to it, and still continued it: AND AGAINST ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH THAT WERE LEFT; unconquered by him; when he invad...
When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of J...
_When the king of Babylon fought against Lachish and against Azekah_ See 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:8. These two cities were not far from Jerusalem, and had been fortified by Rehoboam, for the defence...
OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ZEDEKIAH...
when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, which had not been reduced in previous campaigns, AGAINST LACHISH AND AGAINST AZEKAH, two c...
1-7 Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent...
The prophet was not afraid to go and do the message God had intrusted him with to the king, upon which he was imprisoned, as we read before, JEREMIAH 32:3: the time it should seem was after that the k...
Jeremiah 34:7 king H4428 Babylons H894 army H2428 fought H3898 (H8737) Jerusalem H3389 cities H5892 Judah H3063 lef
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah
SUBSECTION 3 PART 1. JERUSALEM IS SURROUNDED AND JEREMIAH DECLARES THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN HOLDING OUT BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED AND ZEDEKIAH WILL BE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON TO MEET...
CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah concerning the coming captivity. Zedekiah's ineffectual decree. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: God's compassion toward us should engag...
Jeremiah 34:2. _Go and speak to Zedekiah._ This revelation was delivered in the tenth year of his reign, and would have saved the land, when all hopes of safety were fled. Jeremiah 34:4. _Thou shalt n...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:6 With only weeks remaining before Jerusalem’s fall, JEREMIAH 1:1 speaks to ZEDEKIAH again....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES:—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section I., Jeremiah 34:1, is in subject connected with chap. Jeremiah 32:1. These verses, however, seem slightly to antedate that chapter,...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be taken in connection with Jeremiah 35:1. The whole section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It ser...
Now we come to a chronologically new set of prophecies, and this is one that Zedekiah threw him in jail for back in the thirty-first chapter, thirty-second chapter. The word which came unto Jeremiah f...
2 Chronicles 11:5; 2 Chronicles 27:4; 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:14;...