Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 52:33
And changed his prison (p) garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.
(p) And gave him princely apparel.
And changed his prison (p) garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.
(p) And gave him princely apparel.
Verse Jeremiah 52:33. _AND CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS_] That is, Jehoiachin changed his own garments, that he might be suited in that respect to the state of his elevation. Kings also, in token of fa...
CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...
JEREMIAH 52. HISTORICAL APPENDIX. This is taken from 2 Kings 24:18 ff., and gives an account of the capture of Jerusalem, etc., in 586, _i.e._ of the fulfilment of Jeremiah's repeated declarations. Ex...
BREAD Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for all kinds of food....
Last notice of Jehoiachin 31 34. Found with slight variations in 2 Kings 25:27-30....
_changed his prison garments_ Cp. Genesis 41:14; Luke 15:22. _did eat bread before him continually_ was admitted to the king's own table. Cp. 2 Samuel 9:7;...
C. The Release of Jehoiachin Jeremiah 52:31-34 TRANSLATION (31) And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Jud...
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS - gave him garments suitable to a king. HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT...
HISTORICAL APPENDIX (PROBABLY BY THE COMPILER OF THE BOOK) This chapter is substantially the same as Jeremiah 39 (see notes there), but adds particulars relating to the Temple vessels (Jeremiah 52:17....
He was admitted to the king's table....
וְ שִׁנָּ֕ה אֵ֖ת בִּגְדֵ֣י כִלְאֹ֑ו וְ אָכַ֨ל
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
The last chapter of the Book of Jeremiah consists of a historical appendix written, as the final words of the previous chapter show, by another hand. It first gives a brief account of the capture of t...
The last chapter forms no part of the book of Jeremiah, properly so called. We find in it events relative to the destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple. After the remarks we have made, that which...
AND CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS,.... Which were filthy, and of an ill smell; and put on him raiment more comfortable, as well as more honourable, and suitable to his dignity, and more fit to appear in...
_And changed his prison garments_ This has been considered by some an act of generosity in Evil-merodach, giving the captive king new garments, more suitable to his royal dignity than those he wore in...
DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
and changed his prison-garments, witnesses of his deep humiliation; AND HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE....
31-34 See this history of king Jehoiachin in 2 Kings 25:27-12. Those under oppression will find it is not in vain for them to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. Our times are in...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 52:33 changed H8138 (H8765) prison H3608 garments H899 ate H398 (H8804) bread H3899 regularly H8548 befo
THE RESTORATION OF JEHOIACHIN TO A POSITION OF HONOUR (JEREMIAH 52:31). When Nebuchadrezzar crushed the rebellion of Jehoiakim in 597 BC, with Jehoiachin coming to the throne as the Davidic king while...
AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY THE PART RESTORATION OF THE DAVIDIC KING (JEREMIAH 52:1). In this narrative, which on the whole is a repetition of 2 Kin...
CONTENTS: A retrospect: overthrow and capture of Judah. The latter days of Jehoiachin. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah, Zephaniah, Evil-merodach. CONCLU...
Jeremiah 52:1. _Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign._ This and the two following verses are taken from 2 Kings 24:18; and the seven succeeding verses are taken from the thirty...
_Lifted up the head of Jehoiachin._ JEHOIACHIN’S CHANGE OF FORTUNE What changes may occur in life: who can tell what we may come to? After thirty-seven years there arose a king who took a fancy to Je...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 52:1 Conclusion: The Fall of Jerusalem. The book ends by describing Jerusalem’s fall and Zedekiah’s blinding (vv. Jeremiah 52:1), the destr
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 52:32 Whatever Evil-merodach’s motives, JEHOIACHIN was treated well AS LONG AS HE LIVED. David’s descendants, like the rest of the people, waited in exile for the 70 years to...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter forms a historical appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Its AUTHORSHIP is conjectural. They who think Jeremiah penned it urge that the closing words of chap. 5...
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter prove that it is not an independent narrative, but the concluding part of a history of the kings of Judah. It agrees almost word for word with 2 Kings 24:18-12,...
1 Kings 2:7; 2 Samuel 9:13; 2 Samuel 9:7; Genesis 41:14; Genesis 41:42