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.
CHAPTER XXXIX _This chapter gives an account of the siege and taking of_ _Jerusalem; the flight, capture, and punishment of Zedekiah;_ _the burning of the city; and the carrying away of the people,...
“The Capture of Jerusalem” - The majority of the particulars given in Jeremiah 39:1 occur again (marginal reference); and are by some regarded as an interpolation. The external evidence (that of the v...
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)...
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...
Jeremiah 39:3. _and sat_ to carry out the matters arising from the capture. _Nergal-sharezer, etc_.] From the Eng. it would appear that there are six princes mentioned by name. In fact however there a...
III. THE PROPHET CONFIRMED Jeremiah 39:1-18 For years Jeremiah had been preaching that Jerusalem would fall to the enemy from the north, the Chaldeans. Only through national submission to Nebuchadnezz...
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. This chapter consists of two parts: th...
39:1 (d-0) To ver. 10, compare ch. 52.4-16, and 2 Kings 25:1-12 ....
XXXIX. (1) IN THE NINTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH... — The great crisis came at last, as Jeremiah had long ago predicted. A fuller narrative of the siege and capture is given in Jeremiah 52. The two verses whi...
בַּ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ֠ תְּשִׁעִית לְ צִדְקִיָּ֨הוּ...
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
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...
CONTENTS We are now arrived at the long predicted event, the taking of the city. Zedekiah hath his eyes put out; and all the people are made prisoners....
See here the confirmation of God's word; and the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy: and behold in it also, a full refutation of the false and lying prophets. And thus, Reader, depend upon it, will be...
Jeremiah seems here indeed to undertake the office of an historian rather than that of a Prophet; but he seals his previous prophecies, and at the same time shews that he had brought forward nothing r...
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...
IN THE NINTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN THE TENTH MONTH,.... The month Tebet, which answers to part of our December, and part of January; so that it was in the winter season the siege of Jerus...
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. Ver. 1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah._...
_In the ninth year of Zedekiah_, &c. See notes on 2 Kings 25:1. _And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate_ Or, _the gate of the centre_, as Blaney translates it,...
In the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, the day of the month being the tenth, 52:4; 2 Kings 25:1, CAME NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON, AND ALL HIS ARMY AGAINST JERUSALEM, AN...
JERUSALEM TAKEN...
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...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 39 Jerusalem is taken: Zedekiah's sons are slain; his eyes put out; he is sent to Babylon: all the nobles of Judah are slain: the city is burnt, and the chief of the people carried ca...
Jeremiah 39:1 ninth H8671 year H8141 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Judah H3063 tenth H6224 month H2320 Nebuchadnezzar H501
TENTH MONTH....
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...
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,...
_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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 39:1 NINTH YEAR... TENTH MONTH. Perhaps December 589/January 588 B.C. BABYLON... CAME AGAINST JERUSALEM....
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...
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...
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...
2 Kings 25:1; 2 Kings 25:2; Esther 2:16; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 24:2;...
Tenth month — This month answers to part of our December and January....