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The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities -
famine, pestilence, and intense suffering - are best understood from
the Lamentations of Jeremiah, written probably almost immediate...
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3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW
CHAPTER 25
_ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles
36:17)_
2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22)
3. J
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2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND
CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to
have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremia...
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THE CITY WAS BESIEGED UNTO THE TENTH YEAR OF KING ZEDEKIAH.
The siege lasted almost exactly. year and. half. For details examine
Jeremiah 52:1-6, where is learned the day on which it ended. For all
un...
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_unto the eleventh year_ The natural strength of the position of
Jerusalem must have been very considerable, for such a rabble as
remained to be able to hold out nearly two years against the forces of...
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V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7
TRANSLATION
(18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of hi...
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_AND THE CITY WAS BESIEGED UNTO THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING ZEDEKIAH._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the
capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish
people....
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 25
THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM
V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He
marche...
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UNTO THE ELEVENTH YEAR. — The siege lasted altogether one year, five
months, and twenty-seven days (2 Kings 25:1 compared with 2 Kings
25:8). The Chaldæans raised the siege for a time, and marched aga...
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וַ תָּבֹ֥א הָ עִ֖יר בַּ † מָּצֹ֑ור...
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ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH
B.C. 597-586
2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:1
" _ Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de
ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou...
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
B.C. 586
2 Kings 25:1
"In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
nations."
- Zechariah 12:3
"An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...
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THE CAPTIVITY MADE COMPLETE
2 Kings 25:1
As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute
in his dates, marking the _month_ and the _day_. From Ezekiel 24:1 we
gather that on th...
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The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken
to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound
in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...
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As we read in the foregoing chapter that Jerusalem was taken, and here
that it was besieged, we should remember in order to have a clear
apprehension of the history, that though Jerusalem had been con...
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Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see
how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh,
young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25.
The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had
led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious
Jehoshap...
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2 Kings 25:1...
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And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Ver. 2. _Unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah._] Which was a full
year and half; yet so as that the siege was raised for a time b...
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1 Ierusalem is besieged.
4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out.
8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few
poore labourers, into captiuitie,
13 Spoileth and...
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And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, for
the walls and fortifications of the city were very strong....
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JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...
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THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
(vv.1-21)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged
Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the
word of the Lord, t...
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1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till
famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and
Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffic...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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2 Kings 25:2 city H5892 besieged H935 (H8799) H4692 eleventh H6249
H6240 year H8141 King H4428 Zedekiah...
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CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation.
CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael,
Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin.
CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...
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2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with
the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also
made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...
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_And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._
CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of
Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...
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THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah
so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 25:1
THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF
THE REMNANT LEFT