_ZEDEKIAH REBELLETH. JERUSALEM IS BESIEGED AND TAKEN. ZEDEKIAH'S SONS KILLED, AND HIS OWN EYES PUT OUT. NEBUZAR-ADAN BURNETH AND SPOILETH THE CITY: HE CARRIETH AWAY THE CAPTIVES. EVIL-MERODACH ADVANCETH JEHOIACHIN._ _Before Christ 598._... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEDEKIAH WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY YEARS OLD— The present chapter, seems to belong to the book of _Lamentations,_ and serves as a kind of proem to them. The generality of commentators are agreed, that this chapter could not be added by Jeremiah, not only because a great part of it is a repetition of what h... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THROUGH THE ANGER OF THE LORD, &C.— _For it was so because of the anger of_ JEHOVAH _against Judah and Jerusalem._ The particle כי _ki,_ is here causal, and assigns a reason for what went before; namely, why Zedekiah succeeded Jehoiakim in the throne. This happened, it is said, "because of the a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WENT BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN— In the parallel passage in Kings, it is, _And the king went the way toward the plain._... [ Continue Reading ]
AN EUNUCH— _An officer._ So it is read in the parallel places.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SET HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF THE KINGS, &C.— _And set his seat above the seat of the kings._ This may easily be understood to signify, that the king of Babylon shewed him more respect and honour than he did to any of the other captive princes, by placing him nearest himself. See Esther 3:1... [ Continue Reading ]