Jeremiah 52:5

_SO THE CITY WAS BESIEGED UNTO THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING ZEDEKIAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-11 This fruit of sin we should pray against above any thing; Cast me not away from thy presence, Psalms 51:11. None are cast out of God's presence but those who by sin have first thrown themselves out. Zedekiah's flight was in vain, for there is no escaping the judgments of God; they come upon the sinner, and overtake him, let him flee where he will....

Verse Jeremiah 52:5. _SO THE CITY WAS BESIEGED_] It held out _one year and six_ _months_....

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...

SO THE CITY WAS BESIEGED UNTO THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING ZEDEKIAH. The siege continued about eighteen months; from the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth of Zedekiah's reign, to the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of his reign; as follows:...

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)

CHAPTER TWENTY AN HISTORICAL APPENDIX Jeremiah 52:1-34 Chapter 51 closes with an editorial note: Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. Whoever was responsible for appending chapter 52 to the book must have added these words so as to carefully distinguish between his own contribution and that of the great prophet. Just who the author of Jeremiah 52 was nobody knows. Some have tried to argue that Jeremiah himself was the author even though the note at the end of chapter 51 seems to clearly imply the contrary. The argument for the Jeremian authorship of the chapter is basically this: Jeremiah 52 was taken from the Book of Kings and appended to the book of the prophet. Since Jeremiah is said in Jewish tradition

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.), while omitting Nebuchadnezzar's charge as to Jeremiah's safety (Jeremiah 39:11.). Both accounts are probably based on that of 2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:30. 1-11. Capture of the city. 12-27. Subsequent severities. 28-30. Nebuchadnezzar's deportations. 31-34. Concluding notice of Jehoiachin.

וַ תָּבֹ֥א הָ עִ֖יר בַּ † מָּצֹ֑ור עַ֚ד עַשְׁתֵּ֣י עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לַ † מֶּ֖לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ