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Verse Jeremiah 39:5. _TO RIBLAH_] This city was situated on the
northern frontier of Palestine, and Hamath was a large city belonging
also to Syria. See Genesis 10:18....
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Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two
accounts are slight....
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CHAPTER 39
_ 1. The fall of Jerusalem and the fate of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 39:1) _
2. Nebuchadnezzar's kindness to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:10)
3. Ebed-melech's reward (Jeremiah 39:15)...
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM: JEREMIAH SPARED. This paragraph well
illustrates the growth of the OT text; _cf._ 2 Kings 25:1 (also
reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4, from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...
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JERICHO. Thus, Jericho was the scene of Israel's _first_ victory
(Joshua 6), and _final_ defeat.
RIBLAH. Now _Hibleh,_ on the east bank of the Greekntes, thirty-five
miles north-east of Baalbek, the b...
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See introd. note and summary to ch....
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_the plains of Jericho_ the W. side of the Arabah.
_Riblah (Ribleh_) between the mountain ranges of Lebanon and Hermon.
It was a suitable halting-place for Nebuchadnezzar, as being on the
high road b...
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TO RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH— Most interpreters suppose this city
to be the same which was called Antioch in after-times, when it was
taken by Seleucus: in this sense the Jerusalem Targum upon Numb...
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B. The Capture of the King Jeremiah 39:4-10
TRANSLATION
(4) And it came to pass when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men
of war saw them, they fled by going out at night from the city by way
of...
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But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in
the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him
up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of...
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THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM (11TH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH)
The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides
with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25.
1-7. The city taken. Zedekiah's fate...
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RIBLAH] on the high road between Palestine and Babylon....
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IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO. — Here again we have the distinctive word,
the _Araboth_ of the Jordan, the enlargement of the Jordan valley,
three miles wide, near Jericho. The intention of the king was
ap...
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וַ יִּרְדְּפ֨וּ חֵיל ־כַּשְׂדִּ֜ים
אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם וַ...
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CHAPTER XIII
GEDALIAH
Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1
"Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
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This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting
from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the
fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was mad...
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But the Chaldeans' army pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to (c) Riblah in the land of Hamat...
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_In the land, or environs of Emesa, in Syria. (Theodoret) ---
Judgment. Reproaching him with perfidy and ingratitude. (Worthington)
--- He slew the nobles, as his accomplices._...
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What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous
calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these
things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of reject...
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The Chaldeans pursued the fugitive king, no doubt, through a hidden
impulse from above. It is, indeed, probable that he was betrayed by
his own people; and this often happens in a disturbed state of t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44.
After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history
of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were
no...
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BUT THE CHALDEAN ARMY PURSUED AFTER THEM,.... Being informed of the
flight of them, by those who surrendered to them, as Josephus says; or
not finding the king, his family, nobles, and guards, at the...
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But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in
the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him
up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of...
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_They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls_ Betwixt the wall and the
outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which
Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5. S...
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JERUSALEM TAKEN...
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But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, the attempt of Zedekiah
and his soldiers to escape being noticed very soon and the alarm
accordingly given, AND OVERTOOK ZEDEKIAH IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO,...
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GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM:
_ Heb._ spake with him judgments...
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1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy
could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection,
and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his...
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Thus God by his providence fulfilled his threatening by his prophet
Ezekiel, EZEKIEL 17:12. Riblah was upon the borders of Canaan, as
appeareth from NUMBERS 34:11; it was in the land of Hamath, of whi...
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CONTENTS: Final captivity of Judah in accordance with the prophets.
CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,
Sar-sechim, Rab-saris, Rab-mag, Nebuzaradan, Jeremiah, Nebushas...
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Jeremiah 39:1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged
Jerusalem._ On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon
the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their
lot,...
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_In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon._
THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAH
The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most
tragi...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 39:5 Zedekiah did not get far when he fled
(v. Jeremiah 39:4). The PLAINS OF JERICHO were perhaps as few as 14
miles (23 km) east of Jerusalem.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_Cf_.
notes _in loc_. chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six
months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans broke...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is
absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah
39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, and Jeremiah 39:4) have been insert...
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Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month,
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against
Jerusalem, and began their siege. And in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah...
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2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 25:6;...
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Riblah — Riblah was upon the borders of Canaan. Zedekiah was a
tributary to the king of Babylon, and so subject to his power, having
made a covenant with him, and secured his allegiance by his oath to...