Jeremiah 52:13

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: ALL THE HOUSES ... AND ALL THE HOUSES OF THE GREAT ... BURNED HE - the "and" defines what houses especially are meant-namely, "the houses of the great men....

12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more the evil of sin....

Verse Jeremiah 52:13. _AND BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD_] Thus perished this magnificent structure, after it had stood _four hundred and_ _twenty-four_ years _three_ months and _eight_ days. It was built A.M. 2992, and destroyed A.M. 3416....

HOUSES OF THE GREAT - Rather, every great house; i. e., the larger houses only....

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, from which we are justified in inferring that it is taken from the historical work which the editor of the Books of Kings closely followed. It is most improbable that Jeremiah was the author. Would the prophet have contented himself with the meagre statement that Zedekiah "did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord" (verse 2), or with such a summary description of the siege of Jerusalem? Apparently the editor who attached Jeremiah 52:1. as an appendix to the Book of Jeremiah omitted the account of Gedaliah (preserved in...

AND BURNT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... The temple built by Solomon, after it had stood four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days, according to Josephus z: but the Jews say it stood but four hundred ten years a: AND THE KING'S HOUSE; the royal palace; probably that which was built by Solomon, 1 Kings 7:1; AND ALL THE HOUSES OF JERUSALEM: of any note or strength: AND ALL THE HOUSES OF THE GREAT [MEN] BURNT HE WITH FIRE; of the princes and nobles in Jerusalem; it is in the singular number, "and every house of the great one"; or "every great house" b; Jarchi interprets it of the synagogue, where prayer was magnified; and others, he says, understood it of the schools, where the law was magnified. z Autiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 5. a T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 3. 2. Gloss. in ib. b ואת כל בית הגדול "omnem domum magnatis...

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 Jeremiah.” There is a direct statement that Jeremiah wrote all these words. We find it at the close of Jeremiah 51:59. “Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.” It would be a brazen infidelity which says Jeremiah did not write all these words. Yet the almost universally accepted view of the critics is that these Chapter s cannot be the work of Jeremiah. The German infidel, Professor Eichhorn, the man who coined the phrase “higher criticism,” started this denial; Kuenen, Budde and others have followed in his steps. Others have modified this radical view and concede the possibility that Jeremiah may have b

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. Except for Jeremiah 52:28, this chapter has been taken, virtually verbatim, from its source, which should be consulted for the commentary (see _mgg.)._ The differences of text are of minor importance, _e.g._ the addition here of Jeremiah 52:10 b, and the last clause of Jeremiah 52:11, the reading tenth, for seventh (2 Kings 25:7)

Severities following upon the capture 12. From this to Jeremiah 52:23, a part of the narrative which has been summarized in Jeremiah 39:8-10, we find in almost verbal accord with 2 Kings 25:8-17. _in the fifth month_ See Zechariah 7:3 for the commemorative fast. _tenth_ 2 Kgs has _seventh_. We have no grounds whereby to decide between the two dates. _captain of the guard_ See on Jeremiah 39:9. _stood before_ See on...

B. The Destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 52:12-16 TRANSLATION (12) In the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. (13) And he burned the house of the LORD and the house of the king; and all the houses of Jerusalem and every great house he burnt with fire. (14) And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. (15) Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. (16) But Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and laborers. COMMEN