Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 52:23
On a side - The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 is made up.
On a side - The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 is made up.
Verse Jeremiah 52:23. Jeremiah 52:18....
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...
NINETY AND SIX. There were 100 "round about"; Compare 2 Chronicles 3:16; 2 Chronicles 4:13. with 1 Kings 7:20. ON. SIDE. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9. = towards the air, or open air. The other four b
In 1 Kings 7:20; 1 Kings 7:42 each pillar is said to have had two rows of pomegranates, a hundred in each, the one above and the other below the ornamental network of the chapiters. It is possible tha...
Severities following upon the capture 12. From this to Jeremiah 52:23, a part of the narrative which has been summarized in Jeremiah 39:8-10, we find in almost verbal accord with 2 Kings 25:8-17....
Cp. 1 Kings 7:15-18....
C. The Plunder of the Temple Jeremiah 52:17-23 TRANSLATION (17) As for the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the LORD, the bases, the bronze sea which was in the house of the LORD, the Ch...
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about. THERE WERE NINETY AND SIX POMEGRANATES ON A SIDE - literally (on the sid...
52:23 sides; (e-9) Lit. 'windwards.'...
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....
(21-23) AND CONCERNING THE PILLARS... — In 2 Kings 25:16 we have a list abbreviated by the omission of some of the measurements and of the number and arrangement of the pomegranates. “Chapiter” is the...
וַ יִּֽהְיוּ֙ הָֽ רִמֹּנִ֔ים תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וְ ש
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 there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an (i) hundred on all sides. (i) But because of the roundness, no more could be seen but ninet...
_Hundred; four next the wall were not seen, or were fixed to the chaptrels._...
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 THERE WERE NINETY AND SIX POMEGRANATES ON A SIDE,.... Or, "to the wind" e; to the four winds; towards every corner or wind twenty four, which make up ninety six: [AND] ALL THE POMEGRANATES UPON T...
Jeremiah 52:21. _The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits_ The same account is given of the height of these pillars, 1 Kings 7:15: but in 2 Chronicles 3:15, it is said, that both the pillars made...
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side, set towards the four winds or sides; AND ALL THE POMEGRANATES UPON THE NETWORK WERE AN HUNDRED ROUND ABOUT, including those on the corners of the...
DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more t...
There are some differences as to the measure of these chapiters betwixt 2 KINGS 25:17 and this text; here the height of them is made to be five cubits, there it is said to be three cubits: that which...
Jeremiah 52:23 ninety-six H8673 H8337 pomegranates H7416 sides H7307 pomegranates H7416 around H5439 network H7639 hundred...
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 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE TEMPLE FOLLOWED BY THE TAKING OF EXILES AND THE TREASURES OF THE TEMPLE TO BABYLON (JEREMIAH 52:12). Having taken Jerusalem Nebuzaradan, the commander of the ki...
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
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,...
1 Kings 7:20...