Jeremiah 52:7

Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. ALL THE MEN OF WAR FLED ... OUT OF THE CITY BY NIGHT, BY THE WAY OF THE GATE BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS - (note, )....

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....

BROKEN UP ... THE PLAIN - Or, “broken into ... the Arabah” Deuteronomy 1:1....

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...

THEN THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP,.... Either its gates were broke open, some one or other of them; or a breach was made in the walls of it, through which the Chaldean army entered: AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR FLED; the soldiers, with their officers, not being able to stand before the army of the king of Babylon: AND WENT FORTH OUT OF THE CITY BY NIGHT; at which time, very probably, the attack was made, and the gates of the city forced open, or the walls broke down; Josephus p says it was taken in the middle of the night: BY THE WAY OF THE GATE BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS, WHICH [WAS] BY THE KING'S GARDEN; Jeremiah 39:4; NOW THE CHALDEANS [WERE] BY THE CITY ROUND ABOUT; as part of their army entered into it, the other part surrounded it; or, however, were placed at the gates and avenues all around, that none might escape:...

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)

FLED, &C. Compare 2 Kings 25:4. BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS... KING'S GARDEN. See App-68....

See on Jeremiah 39:4....

AND THEY WENT BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN— In the parallel passage in Kings, it is, _And the king went the way toward the plain._...