Jeremiah 4:16-17
Announce <02142> [ye.]
besiege <05341> [watchers.]
distant <04801> [from.]
raise <05414> [give out.]
guarding <08104> [keepers.]
rebelled <04784> [because.]
Jeremiah 39:1-3
ninth <08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth.]
tenth <06224> [the tenth.]
This was the month Tebeth, (Es 2:16,) which began with the first moon of January; and it was on the 10th of this month that Nebuchadnezzar invested the city.
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.]
This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months.
broke <01234> [was.]
other officers <08269 07611> [all the.]
Nergal-Sharezer .......... Nergal-Sharezer <05371> [Nergalsharezer.]
Nebo-Sarsekim <08310> [Sarsechim.]
These were the principal commanders; but Dr. Blayney thinks that, instead of six persons, we have in reality but three, as the name that follows each is the title of the office. Thus Nergal-Sharezer, who was Samgar-nebo, or keeper, i.e., priest of Nebo; Sarsechim, who was Rab-saris, or chief eunuch; and Nergal-sharezer, who was Rab-mag, or chief magi; as the words {mog} in Persian, {magoos} in Arabic, {magooshai} in Syriac, and [magos <\\See definition 3097\\>,] in Greek, signify; and we learn from Justin and Curtius that the magi attended the king in war.
Jeremiah 39:2
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.]
This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months.
broke <01234> [was.]
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket ................. other basket <0259 01731> [One basket.]
ripened early <01073> [first ripe.]
The {boccore,} or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See Note on Isa 28:4.
bad-looking <07451> [naughty.]
The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.
bad <07455> [they were so bad. Heb. for badness.]
Jeremiah 24:10--25:4
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.]
first <07224> [the first.]
Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.
twenty-three ..... thirteenth <07969> [thirteenth.]
again <07925> [rising.]
servants <05650> [all.]
Urijah the son of Shemaiah, and Huldah the prophetess, lived about this time. Zephaniah also prophesied during part of the time; and it is probable that Habakkuk was contemporary with them.
again <07925> [rising.]
have ... listened ... paid attention <08085> [ye.]
Luke 19:43
days <2250> [the days.]
will build <4016> [cast.]
Or, "cast a bank" or rampart [charax <\\See definition 5482\\>.] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by Titus; who surrounded it with a wall of circumvallation in three days, though not less than 39 furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in.
