What does Jeremiah 52:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brasse of all these vessels was without weight."
Verse Jeremiah 52:20. Jeremiah 52:18....
TWELVE BRASEN BULLS THAT WERE UNDER - Omitted in 2 Kings and in Jeremiah 27:19. Probably rightly, for what is said here of their being under the bases is a mistake. The bases were under the ten lavers...
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...
UNDER. beneath....
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. _i...
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 Ch...
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. TWELVE BRASEN B...
52:20 bases, (d-15) Or 'that were under the bases.'...
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...
(18-20) THE CALDRONS ALSO, AND THE SHOVELS... — The list in 2 Kings 25:14 omits the basons, the caldrons, the candlesticks, and the cups; in Jeremiah 52:15 it gives the definite article in the Hebrew...
הָ עַמּוּדִ֣ים ׀ שְׁנַ֗יִם הַ יָּ֤ם אֶחָד֙ וְ הַ בָּקָ֞ר שְׁנֵים ־עָשָׂ֤ר נְחֹ֨שֶׁת֙ אֲשֶׁר ־תַּ֣חַת...
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 two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without (h) weight. (h) It was...
_Under the sea the bases, (Haydock) or bowls, which, &c._...
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...
THE TWO PILLARS, ONE SEA, AND TWELVE BRASEN BULLS,.... The two pillars of Jachin and Boaz before mentioned, and the molten or brasen sea, with the twelve bulls or oxen the sea stood upon, 1 Kings 7:25...
_Also the pillars of brass, &c., the Chaldeans brake_ See note on 2 Kings 25:13. The temple was rifled of its riches and furniture at several times. The first was when Nebuchadnezzar came up against J...
DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
THE BRASS: _ Heb._ their brass...
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 t...
Solomon made two pillars, 1 KINGS 7:15, which, JEREMIAH 52:21, he called _Jachin and Boaz_; JEREMIAH 52:23, a molten sea, ten cubits broad; this, JEREMIAH 52:25, stood upon twelve oxen, and had ten ba...
Jeremiah 52:20 two H8147 pillars H5982 one H259 Sea H3220 twelve H8147 H6240 bronze H5178 bulls H1241 carts H4350 King H4428 Solomon H8010 made H6213 (H8804) house H1004 bronze H5178 articles H3627 me...
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...
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...
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,...
1 Chronicles 22:14; 1 Kings 7:47; 2 Chronicles 4:18; 2 Kings 25:16; Jeremiah 52:17...