Jeremiah 52:1
ZEDEKIAH. Compare 2 Kings 24:18. Reigned from 489 to 477 B.C.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEDEKIAH. Compare 2 Kings 24:18. Reigned from 489 to 477 B.C.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
NINTH YEAR. Compare 2 Kings 25:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FAMINE. Described in the Lamentations of Jeremiah. See note on Genesis 12:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLED, &C. Compare 2 Kings 25:4. BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS... KING'S GARDEN. See App-68.... [ Continue Reading ]
BIBLAH. Now _Ribleh._ On the east bank of the Greekntes, thirty-five miles north-east of Baalbek.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT OUT THE EYES. See note on Jeremiah 32:4. Compare 2 Kings 25:6; 2 Kings 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13. Hence, Zedekiah never _saw_ Babylon, though he was taken thither.... [ Continue Reading ]
TENTH DAY. In 2 Kings 25:8 it says "seventh day", but that was "[to] Jerusalem". This is "into Jerusalem". INTO. in.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE. This is supplemental to 2 Kings 25:12. Hebrew. _dal =_ impoverished. See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11. Compare Nehemiah 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
PILLARS OF BRASS. Compare Jeremiah 27:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SHOVELS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 27:3, &c). BOWLS. bowls for sprinkling.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIREPANS. censers. CANDLESTICKS. lamps.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNDER. beneath.... [ Continue Reading ]
PILLARS. Compare 1 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 25:17. CUBITS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPITER. capital.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 being behind, out of sight.... [ Continue Reading ]
SERAIAH. See 2 Kings 25:18; 1 Chronicles 6:14. Compare Jeremiah 51:59. DOOR. threshold.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN. In 2 Kings 25:19 "five"; but the greater includes the lesser.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAND. soil.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVENTH YEAR. This was at the beginning of Nebuchadrezzar's second siege, the year before Jehoiachin's captivity, 490 B.C.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR was the second year of his third and last siege, or 478 B.C. PERSONS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. Four years after the fall of Jerusalem. Another contact of Bible and secular chronology, 473 B.C. See App-86.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN AND THIRTIETH YEAR. Compare 2 Kings 25:27. See App-50. JEHOIACHIN. Elsewhere in this book called "Jeconiah" (Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:2), or "Coniah" (Jeremiah 22:24; Jeremiah 22:28). FIVE AND TWENTIETH. The order given then, but probably not carried out till the "seven and twentieth", acc... [ Continue Reading ]
KINDLY UNTO HIM. good things with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAD Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for all kinds of food.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTIL, &C. Note the items above, which are supplemental to 2 Kings 25.... [ Continue Reading ]