Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah rebels.
4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken.
8 Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out.
12 Nebuzar-adan burns and spoils the city.
24 He carries away the captives.
28 The number of Jews carried captive.
31 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin.
twenty-one .............. eleven <0259> [A.M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. one.]
[begin to reign. Heb. reigned. Libnah.]
did .......... done <06213> [he did.]
Jehoiakim <03079> [according.]
<05921> [through.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
ninth year <08141 08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year.]
tenth ..... tenth month <06224 02320 06218> [in the tenth month.]
set up camp <02583> [pitched.]
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.]
famine <07458> [the famine.]
city ............. city ........................ city <05892> [the city.]
<0582> [all the men.]
captured <08610> [they took.]
Riblah <07247> [Riblah.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
put to death ................ put to death <07819> [slew.]
put to death ................ put to death <07819> [he slew.]
Zedekiah's eyes ................. led <05869 06667 05414> [put out the eyes of Zedekiah. Heb. blinded Zedekiah.]
chains <05178> [chains. or, fetters. prison. Heb. house of the wards.]
fifth <02549> [fifth.]
tenth <06218> [the tenth.]
It appears from the parallel passage of Kings, that Nebuzar-adan came from Riblah to Jerusalem on the seventh of the fifth month; but it seems that he did not set fire to the temple and city till the tenth day, being probably occupied on the intervening days in taking the vessels out of the house of the Lord, and collecting together all the riches that could be found. In memory of this calamity, the Jews devote two fasts to this day; the seventeenth of the fourth month, which falls in June, for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the ninth of the fifth month, which falls in July, for the destruction of the temple; both of which are mentioned by Zechariah as kept from this event till his time, a period of seventy years, under the names of the fast of the fourth month, and fast of the fifth month.
nineteenth <08672> [the nineteenth.]
captain .... royal guard <07227 02876> [captain of the guard. or, chief marshal. Heb. chief of the executioners, or slaughtermen, and so.]
served <05975> [served. Heb. stood before.]
burned down .............. including <08313> [burned.]
royal <04428> [the king's.]
tore <05422> [brake.]
exile <01540> [carried.]
poor <01803> [certain.]
pillars <05982> [pillars.]
movable stands <04350> [the bases.]
pots <05518> [caldrons.]
shovels <03257> [the shovels. or, instruments to remove the ashes.]
trimming shears <04212> [the snuffers.]
basins <04219> [bowls. or, basons]
pans <03709> [the spoons.]
censers <04289> [fire pans. or, censers.]
lampstands <04501> [and the candlesticks.]
two <08147> [two.]
bronze .......................... bronze <05178> [the brass. Heb. their brass. without.]
pillars <05982> [concerning.]
<02339> [fillet. Heb. thread.]
latticework <07639> [with network.]
pomegranate-shaped ornaments ........... pomegranate-shaped ornaments <07416> [all the.]
captain <07227> [the captain.]
Seraiah <08304> [Seraiah.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
doorkeepers <05592> [door. Heb. threshold.]
official <0259 05631> [an eunuch.]
king's advisers <04428 06440 07200> [were near the king's person. Heb. saw the face of the king.]
official army secretary <05608 06635 08269> [principal scribe of the host. or, scribe of the captain of the host.]
king <04428> [the king.]
Riblah <07247> [Riblah.]
Judah <03063> [Thus.]
seventh <07651> [A.M. 3404. B.C. 600. in the.]
eighteenth ... 832 <08083> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. the eighteenth.]
people <05315> [persons. Heb. souls.]
carried into exile <01540> [carried.]
thirty-seventh <07651> [A.M. 3442. B.C. 562. it came.]
twelfth <08147> [in the twelfth.]
Nearly answering to our 25th of April, A.M. 3442.
King ...................... King <04428 0894> [king of Babylon.]
<05375> [lifted up.]
This phrase is founded on the observation that those in sorrow hold down their heads; and, when comforted, or the cause of their sorrow removed, they lift up their heads.
kindly ..... gave <02896 05414> [kindly unto him. Heb. good things with him.]
gave <05414> [set.]
Gave him a more respectable seat than any of the captive princes.
took off <08138> [changed.]
Presented him with a caftan, or robe, as a mark of favour, as is still the practice in the East.
daily <08548> [he did.]
daily <08548> [there was.]
day <03117 01697> [every day a portion. Heb. the matter of the day in his day.]
