Jeremiah 52:18

The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. CALDRONS ... SHOVELS ... SNUFFERS ... - ()....

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 52:18. In reference to these verses see the parallel texts in the margin, the various readings there, and the notes. (Exodus 27:3; 2 Kings 25:14-12; 1 Kings 7:47; 1 Kings 7:15; 2 Chronicles 3:15; 1 Kings 7:20)...

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...

THE CAULDRONS ALSO,.... Or "pots", as it is rendered, 2 Kings 25:14; which were made of bright brass, 1 Kings 7:45; these were used to boil the flesh of the sacrifices in: AND THE SHOVELS; used to remove the ashes from off the altar of burnt offerings, and were of brass also: the Targum renders them "besoms", whose handles perhaps were of brass: AND THE SNUFFERS; the Vulgate Latin translates it "psalteries"; and so Jarchi interprets it of musical instruments; some think "tongs" are meant: AND THE BOWLS; or "basins"; either to drink out of, or to receive the blood of the sacrifice: AND THE SPOONS: ladles, cups, or dishes, vessels used about the sacrifices: and all the vessels of brass wherewith they

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)

THE SHOVELS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 27:3, &c). BOWLS. bowls for sprinkling....

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...

C. The Plunder of the Temple Jeremiah 52:17-23 TRANSLATION (17) As for the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the LORD, the bases, the bronze sea which was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans smashed them and carried away all the bronze to Babylon. (18) They also took with them the pots, shovels, snuffers, sprinkling bowls, forks and all the bronze utensils used in the service. (19) The captain of the guard took away the small bowls, the firepans, basins, the pots, lampstands, the incense bowls, the libation bowlsboth the ones that were of gold and the ones of silver. (20) As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve oxen of bronze which were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the LORDthe bronze of all these vessels could not be measured. (21) As for the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, twelve cubits