Jeremiah 52:28

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: IN THE SEVENTH YEAR - in ; ; it is said "the eighth year" of Nebuchadrezzar. No doubt it was in part about the end of the 7th year, in part about the beginning of the 8th year. Also in , (), and 7,000 men of might, and 1,000 craftsmen () are said to have been carried away. Bu...

24-30 The leaders of the Jews caused them to err; but now they are, in particular, made monuments of Divine justice. Here is an account of two earlier captivities. This people often were wonders both of judgment and mercy....

Verse Jeremiah 52:28-24. On these verses Dr. _Blayney_ has some sensible remarks; I will extract the substance. These verses are not inserted in 2 Kings xxv. Are we to conclude from these verses that the whole number of the Jews which Nebuchadnezzar, in all his expeditions, carried away, was no more than _four thousand six_ _hundred_? This cannot be true; for he carried away more than twice that number at one time and this is expressly said to have been in the _eighth_ year of his reign, 2 Kings 24:12. Before that time he had carried off a number of captives from Jerusalem, in the _first_ year of his reign, among whom were _Daniel_ and his companions, Daniel 1:3. These are confessedly no...

SEVENTH YEAR - The suggestion is now generally received, that the word ten has dropped out before seven, and that the deportations mentioned here are all connected with the final war against Zedekiah. The calculation of Nebuchadnezzars reign is different from that used elsewhere, showing that the writer had access to a document not known to the compiler of the Book of Kings. In each date there is a difference of one year. The Septuagint omits Jeremiah 52:28. The number of the exiles carried away is small compared with the 42,360 men who returned Ezra 2:64, leaving a large Jewish population behind at Babylon. But a continual drain of people from Judaea was going on, and the 10,000 carried away with Jehoiachin formed the nucleus and center,

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...

THIS [IS] THE PEOPLE WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE IN THE SEVENTH YEAR,.... That is, of his reign: in 2 Kings 24:12; it is said to be in the eighth year of his reign; it being at the latter end of the seventh, and the beginning of the eighth, as Kimchi observes; this was the captivity of Jeconiah: the number of the captives then were THREE THOUSAND JEWS, AND THREE AND TWENTY; but in 2 Kings 24:14; they are said to be ten thousand; which may be reconciled thus, there were three thousand twenty and three of the tribe of Judah, here called Jews; and the rest were of the tribe of Benjamin, and of the ten tribes that were mixed among them; see 2 Kings 24:16....

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 SEVENTH YEAR. This was at the beginning of Nebuchadrezzar's second siege, the year before Jehoiachin's captivity, 490 B.C....

Enumeration of Nebuchadnezzar's captives 28. _in the seventh year_ These _vv_. are absent from the LXX and from 2 Kings 25 and apparently come out of a separate document from the rest. For "seventh" we should read _seventeenth_, for in Jehoiachin's captivity the number was far greater than is here specified (2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:16). Thus the _first_deportation would consist of the men of Judah taken prisoners outside Jerusalem in the first year of the siege (Jeremiah 39:1), the _second_(Jeremiah 52:29) of those ca