Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Kings 25:3
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine (c) prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
(c) So much that the mothers ate their children, (Lamentations 4:10).
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine (c) prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
(c) So much that the mothers ate their children, (Lamentations 4:10).
Verse 2 Kings 25:3. 2 Kings 25:2....
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
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...
ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE FOURTH MONTH THE FAMINE PREVAILED. In the original the number is omitted, probably by the fault of the copyist. It is supplied from Jeremiah 52:6. The month answers to July. Th...
FOURTH. This numeral is supplied from Jeremiah 52:6. THE FAMINE. The ninth recorded in Scripture. See note on Genesis 12:10. Fulfilling Leviticus 26:29;...
_And on the ninth_day _of the_fourth _month_ The words in italic omitted here by the scribe, can be filled up from Jeremiah 39:2; Jeremiah 52:6. _the famine prevailed_ R.V. WAS SORE. The verb is that...
THE FAMINE PREVAILED— See Ezekiel 5:10 and Lamentations 4:5....
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...
_AND ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE FOURTH MONTH THE FAMINE PREVAILED IN THE CITY, AND THERE WAS NO BREAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND._ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed. In consequen...
THE FAMINE] the sufferings of the besieged are described in Jeremiah 21:7; Lamentations 4:8; Lamentations 5:10....
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...
AND ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE FOURTH MONTH. — The text is supplemented from Jeremiah 39:2; Jeremiah 52:6. The Syriac, however, has, “And in the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, _in the fifth month,_ on t...
בְּ תִשְׁעָ֣ה לַ † חֹ֔דֶשׁ וַ יֶּחֱזַ֥ק...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Of the. Protestants supply, " fourth month," as it is in the parallel passage, Jeremias lii. 6., And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month. In Jeremias xxxix. 2., we read, in the fourth mont...
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...
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...
2 Kings 25:1...
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. Ver. 3. _The famine prevailed in the city._] Insomuch as that the fat...
_The famine prevailed in the city_ So that for a long time they ate their bread, as Ezekiel foretold they should do, (Ezekiel 4:16,) _by weight and with care_, and _drunk their water by measure and wi...
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...
JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...
And on the ninth day of the fourth month, after almost a year and a half, THE FAMINE PREVAILED IN THE CITY, AND THERE WAS NO BREAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, the common people were in such sore strai...
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...
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...
THE FOURTH MONTH; which word is easily understood, by comparing this and the first verse, and JEREMIAH 39:2, JEREMIAH 52:6, where it is expressed. FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, i.e. for the common sort...
2 Kings 25:3 ninth H8672 month H2320 famine H7458 severe H2388 (H8799) city H5892 food H3899 people H5971 land...
FOURTH MONTH That is, July....
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...
_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...
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
Deuteronomy 28:52; Deuteronomy 28:53; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 4:9;...
The people — For the common people, but only for the great men. Now they eat their own children for want of food, Lamentations 4:3, &c. Jeremiah in this extremity, earnestly persuaded the king to surr...