What does Jeremiah 52:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then he put outa the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death."
Verse Jeremiah 52:11. _HE PUT OUT THE EYES OF ZEDEKIAH_] Jeremiah 39:7....
PUT HIM IN PRISON ... - Not found in 2 Kings, for in the contemporaneous history what befell Zedekiah at Riblah would alone be known. It was no doubt added by the same hand which inserted the account...
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...
PUT OUT THE EYES. See note on Jeremiah 32:4. Compare 2 Kings 25:6; 2 Kings 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13. Hence, Zedekiah never _saw_ Babylon, though he was taken thither....
These _vv_. appear in a shorter form in 2 Kings 25:7....
CHAPTER TWENTY AN HISTORICAL APPENDIX Jeremiah 52:1-34 Chapter 51 closes with an editorial note: Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. Whoever was responsible for appending chapter 52 to the book must...
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. HE PUT OUT THE EYES OF ZEDEKIAH - th...
52:11 brass; (e-15) Or 'with double chains of bronze.' see ch. 39.7....
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...
AND PUT HIM IN PRISON TILL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH. — This also is an additional detail not mentioned in 2 Kings 25, and its absence is probably due to the fact that that was the earlier narrative of the...
וְ אֶת ־עֵינֵ֥י צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ עִוֵּ֑ר וַ יַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ בַֽ † נְחֻשְׁתַּ֗יִם וַ יְבִאֵ֤הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ ־בָּבֶל֙...
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote with the sword and slew Gedaliah b...
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...
THEN HE PUT OUT THE EYES OF ZEDEKIAH,.... After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him; Jeremiah 39:7; AND THE KING OF BABYLON BOUND HIM IN CHAINS, AND CAR...
_Zedekiah was one and twenty years old_ The first three verses of this chapter are word for word the same with 2 Kings 24:18, where see the notes; and for the six following verses, see those on 2 King...
CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM...
PUT OUT: _ Heb._ blinded IN CHAINS: Or, fetters PRISON: _ Heb._ house of the wards...
1-11 This fruit of sin we should pray against above any thing; Cast me not away from thy presence, Psalms 51:11. None are cast out of God's presence but those who by sin have first thrown themselves o...
This history is found 2 KINGS 25:1, much in the same words. See the annotations on that chapter. Jeremiah also hath the substance of it, JEREMIAH 39:1; only neither of those places have the last words...
Jeremiah 52:11 out H5786 (H8765) eyes H5869 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Babylon H894 bound H631 (H8799) fetters H5178 took H935 (H8686) Babylon H894 put H5414 (H8799) prison H1004 H6486 day H3117 death...
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 Ki...
Jeremiah 52:8 Of the many truths which the passage before us teaches, the mysterious intervolution of the plans of God with the plans of men will seem to some minds the most impressive. I. The enclo...
CONTENTS: A retrospect: overthrow and capture of Judah. The latter days of Jehoiachin. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah, Zephaniah, Evil-merodach. CONCL...
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...
_He put out the eyes of Zedekiah._ ZEDEKIAH THE PRISONER Here is no mystery. A wicked man, unfaithful to a very sacred trust, ending his days in darkness and a prison (Psalms 37:35). The son of the g...
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 destruction of the temple (vv. Jeremiah...
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,...
Ezekiel 12:13; Jeremiah 34:3...