Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Kings 25:26
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to (m) Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
(m) Contrary to Jeremiah's counsel in Jeremiah 40-42.
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to (m) Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
(m) Contrary to Jeremiah's counsel in Jeremiah 40-42.
Jeremiah gives this history with much fullness of detail Jer. 41–43....
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
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. FATE OF THE REMNANT. This again is more fully related in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:8 to Jeremiah 42:22), of which the passage before us is probably an abridgement. 2 Kings 25:8....
CAME TO EGYPT. In defiance of the counsel of Jeremiah (whom they took with them). See Jeremiah 42 and 2Ki 43:8-13, who foretold that Egypt also would be given to the king of Babylon (Jeremiah 44:29; J...
_all the people … and the captains of the armies_[R.V. FORCES] _arose and came_to _Egypt_ Feeling now sure that there would be reason to fear because of the servants of the Chaldæans. They were in a p...
B. THE APPOINTMENT AND ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH 25:22-26 TRANSLATION (22) As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them G...
_AND ALL THE PEOPLE, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE ARMIES, AROSE, AND CAME TO EGYPT: FOR THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE CHALDEES._ Came to Egypt - in spite of Jeremiah's dissuasions (Jeremia...
CAME TO EGYPT] In doing this the people acted in defiance of the counsel of Jeremiah, whom they took with them: see Jeremiah 42, 43....
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....
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...
(22-26) An extract from Jeremiah 40-63, relating to the people left in the land....
AROSE AND CAME TO EGYPT. — They took Jeremiah with them (Jeremiah 43:6). This verse only gives the end of the story as it is told in Jeremiah....
וַ יָּקֻ֨מוּ כָל ־הָ עָ֜ם מִ קָּטֹ֤ן
GEDALIAH B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:22 " _ Vedi che son un che piango._ " - DANTE, "Inferno." "No rather steel thy melting heart To act the martyr s sternest part, To watch with firm, unshrinking eye Th...
THE REMNANT FLEE TO EGYPT 2 Kings 25:22 Thus at last the city, which had been full of people, sat solitary, bewailed by Jeremiah in exquisite elegies. The poorest only were left, under Gedaliah, the...
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...
_Chaldees. They went under the conduct of Johanan, in opposition to the declaration of Jeremias, xliii. 7., and xliv. 1. (Calmet)_...
Jeremiah had told Baruch that his life should be given for a prey, and here we find certain of the people were preserved, Jeremiah 45:5. It was the mercy of God, in the midst of judgment, to incline t...
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...
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...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT,.... High and low, rich and poor, among whom were the king's daughters, committed to the care of Gedaliah, and also the prophets Jeremiah and Baruch, see Jere...
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees. Ver. 26. _And came to Egypt._] Their rendezvous was at Bethle...
_And all the people arose, and came to Egypt_ Contrary to the persuasion of Jeremiah, who pressed them to stay in the land, that it might not altogether lie uncultivated, (seeing they were to be settl...
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...
GEDALIAH GOVERNOR OF JUDAH...
And all the people, both small and great, whether powerful and influential or not, AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE ARMIES AROSE, AND, after stopping for a while near Bethlehem, CAME TO EGYPT; FOR THEY WERE AF...
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...
22-30 The king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah to be the governor and protector of the Jews left their land. But the things of their peace were so hidden from their eyes, that they knew not when they w...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 25:26 people H5971 small H6996 great H1419 captains H8269 armies H2428 arose H6965 (H8799) went H935 ...
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...
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:22 GEDALIAH, the new GOVERNOR of the territory that once was Judah, was the grandson of King Josiah’s secretary SHAPHAN. His assassination caused a ge
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...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT
Jeremiah 41:16; Jeremiah 42:14; Jeremiah 43:4...
Egypt — And here they probably mixt with the Egyptians by degrees, and were heard of no more as Israelites....