Jeremiah 52:33

And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS - gave him garments suitable to a king. HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE HIM - (, "Mephibosheth ... did eat continually at the king's table")....

31-34 See this history of king Jehoiachin in 2 Kings 25:27-12. Those under oppression will find it is not in vain for them to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. Our times are in God's hand, for the hearts of all we have to deal with are so. May we be enabled, more and more, to rest on the Rock of Ages, and to look forward with holy faith to that hour, when the Lord will bring again Zion, and overthrow all the enemies of the church....

Verse Jeremiah 52:33. _AND CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS_] That is, Jehoiachin changed his own garments, that he might be suited in that respect to the state of his elevation. Kings also, in token of favour, gave caftans or robes to those whom they wish to honour. _AND HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE HIM_] Was a constant guest at the king's table....

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 CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS,.... Which were filthy, and of an ill smell; and put on him raiment more comfortable, as well as more honourable, and suitable to his dignity, and more fit to appear in, in the presence of the king and his court: AND HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE: either at the same table with the king; or at other near him, in his sight, in the same apartment; though the former seems more likely; and this he did as long as he lived; either Evilmerodach, or rather Jeconiah; though perhaps they both died much about the same time. All this was done about the year of the world 3444, and about five hundred sixty years before Christ, according to Bishop Usher t and Mr. Bedford u; the authors of the Universal History w place it a year earlier. t Annales Vet. Test. p. 138. u Scripture Chronology, p. 710. w Vol. 21. p. 64....

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)

BREAD Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for all kinds of food....

Last notice of Jehoiachin 31 34. Found with slight variations in 2 Kings 25:27-30....

C. The Release of Jehoiachin Jeremiah 52:31-34 TRANSLATION (31) And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, Evil-Merodach, king of Babylon, in his accession year showed favor to Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison. (32) He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. (33) So he changed his prison garments and ate bread continually before him all the days of his life. (34) As for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon on a daily basis until the day of his death, all the days of his life. COMMENTS The account of the release of Jehoiachin occurs with only slight variations in...