George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 39:9
Army. Hebrew, "slayers," denoting soldiers, cooks, and sacrificers, Genesis xxxvii. 36. --- Remained, having escaped the sword, &c. They had been spared when Joakim and Jechonias were taken.
Army. Hebrew, "slayers," denoting soldiers, cooks, and sacrificers, Genesis xxxvii. 36. --- Remained, having escaped the sword, &c. They had been spared when Joakim and Jechonias were taken.
Verse Jeremiah 39:9. _THOSE THAT FELL AWAY_] That deserted to the Chaldeans during the siege....
Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two accounts are slight....
CHAPTER 39 _ 1. The fall of Jerusalem and the fate of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 39:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's kindness to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:10) 3. Ebed-melech's reward (Jeremiah 39:15)...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM: JEREMIAH SPARED. This paragraph well illustrates the growth of the OT text; _cf._ 2 Kings 25:1 (also reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4, from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...
NEBUZAR-ADAN. the prince favoured by Nebo. THE GUARD. the executioners (2 Kings 25:8). Compare Genesis 37:36; Genesis 39:1....
See introd. note and summary to ch....
_Nebuzaradan_ He did not, however, arrive (Jeremiah 52:12; 2 Kings 25:8) till a month later. _captain of the guard_ Heb. _chief of the executioners_. _that fell away to him_ i.e. that went over to t...
B. The Capture of the King Jeremiah 39:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw them, they fled by going out at night from the city by way of...
C. The Captivity of the People Jeremiah 39:8-10 TRANSLATION (8) The Chaldeans burned the house of the king and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem. (9) The rest of the peopl...
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the peopl...
THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM (11TH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH) The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25. 1-7. The city taken. Zedekiah's fate...
THEN NEBUZAR-ADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD. — Here again the title in the Hebrew — _Bab-tab-bachim_ — takes a form like that of Rab-saris and Rab-shaken, and means literally, “chief of the slaughterer...
וְ אֵת֩ יֶ֨תֶר הָ עָ֜ם הַ נִּשְׁאָרִ֣ים
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was mad...
What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of reject...
The Prophet now relates also what happened to others, even those who remained in the city, and whom Nebuchadnezzar and his army had spared: he says that they were _brought to Babylon. _There were thos...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD,.... The Targum is, "the captain of those that kill;'' of the soldiers, of the militia. Some render it, the captain of the "cooks"; others, of the "butchers...
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people...
_They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls_ Betwixt the wall and the outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5. S...
Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, the commander of the royal Chaldean body-guard, one of the chief officers of Nebuchadnezzar, CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE INTO BABYLON THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE TH...
JERUSALEM TAKEN...
THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD: Or, chief Marshal. _Heb._ chief of the executioners or slaughtermen. And so verse 10. 11, etc....
1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his...
This NEBUZAR-ADAN was in that place which we call the _provost-marshal_, with them it was called THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD; and here are two sorts of prisoners reckoned up whom he carried away: 1. Suc...
Jeremiah 39:9 Nebuzaradan H5018 captain H7227 guard H2876 captive H1540 (H8689) Babylon H894 remnant H3499 people H5971
CONTENTS: Final captivity of Judah in accordance with the prophets. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim, Rab-saris, Rab-mag, Nebuzaradan, Jeremiah, Nebushas...
Jeremiah 39:1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged Jerusalem._ On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their lot,...
_In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon._ THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAH The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most tragi...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 39:9 The PEOPLE WHO WERE LEFT IN THE CITY and THOSE WHO HAD DESERTED were taken to BABYLON. Not every Judean was taken, for the poorest people,...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_Cf_. notes _in loc_. chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans broke...
EXPOSITION This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, and Jeremiah 39:4) have been insert...
Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and began their siege. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah...
2 Kings 20:18; 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Kings 25:20; Deuteronomy 4:27;...