2 Kings 17:30
Babylon <0894> [Babylon.]
Succoth Benoth <05524> [Succoth benoth.]
{Succoth benoth,} literally "the tents of the daughters."
Cuth <03575> [Cuth.]
Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (Ge 2:13,) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Co‰thians, or Co‰t‘, and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Cythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc.
Nergal <05370> [Nergal.]
Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock.
Ashima <0807> [Ashima.]
Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat.
2 Kings 20:12
Merodach-Baladan <01255> [A.M. 3292. B.C. 712. Berodach-baladan.]
[Merodach-baladan. king.]
Babylon <0894> [Babylon.]
letters <07971 05612> [sent letters.]
heard <08085> [for he had heard.]
2 Kings 24:1
During <03117> [his days.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadnezzar.]
This prince, so famous in the writings of the prophets, was the son of Nabopollasar king of Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16
7,000 ..... 1,000 <0505 07651> [seven thousand.]
2 Kings 24:20
anger <0639> [through.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
2 Kings 25:7
executed <07819> [they slew.]
put out <05786> [and put out. Heb. and made blind.]
Thus were fulfilled the apparently contradictory prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel--that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, but Babylon he should not see, though he should die there.
bound .... bronze <0631 05178> [bound him.]
2 Kings 25:22
people <05971> [the people.]
Gedaliah <01436> [Gedaliah.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
2 Kings 25:24
oath <07650 0582> [sware to them.]
well <03190> [and it shall be.]
