Jeremiah 52:29

In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR - when Jerusalem was taken. But in , and , "the nineteenth year." Probably it was in the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th year (Lyra). EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY AND TWO. The most illustrious persons are meant, who no doubt were carried away first in the end of the 18th year....

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 52:29. Jeremiah 52:28....

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...

IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR,.... Said to be the nineteenth, Jeremiah 52:12; it was at the end of the eighteenth, and the beginning of the nineteenth, as Kimchi; or this was before the taking of the city, when he raised the siege, and departed to meet the king of Egypt, at which time he might carry captive many, as here said: HE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE FROM JERUSALEM, EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY AND TWO PERSONS; which is more likely to be then done than at the taking of the city; when it is very probable a greater number was carried captive, which are not here taken notice of....

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 EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR was the second year of his third and last siege, or 478 B.C. PERSONS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._...

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

B. Details About the Deportations Jeremiah 52:28-30 TRANSLATION (28) These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In the seventh year 3,023 Jews; in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, from Jerusalem 832; in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took captive 745 Jewsin all 4,600 persons. COMMENTS Jeremiah 52:28-30 have no parallel in the Book of Kings and the statistics given here are found nowhere else in Scripture. These verses speak of three deportations of Jews to Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. When one attempts to integrate the information contained in these verses with the data from the Book of Kings two problems arise one of which is chronological and the other, numerical. The