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THE FUGITIVES ... - It was from a fear of the treatment which he would
receive at the hands of these deserters that Zedekiah persisted in
defending the city to the last Jeremiah 38:19....
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3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW
CHAPTER 25
_ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles
36:17)_
2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22)
3. J
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DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. FATE OF THE REMNANT. This again is more
fully related in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:8 to Jeremiah 42:22), of which
the passage before us is probably an abridgement.
2 Kings 25:8....
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THE FUGITIVES THAT FELL AWAY TO THE KING.
Those who had been satisfied of the folly of resisting him, and had
quitted Jerusalem before or during the siege. There were two factions
during all these tr...
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_Now the rest_[R.V. AND THE RESIDUE] _of the people_ The change is in
accordance with Jeremiah 52:15 where the same people are spoken of.
_and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon_ R.V....
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VI. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS
25:8-17
TRANSLATION
(8) And in the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, it being the
nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of B...
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_AND ALL THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEES, THAT WERE WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE
GUARD, BRAKE DOWN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM ROUND ABOUT._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the
capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish
people....
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THE REST OF THE PEOPLE] i.e. those that remained in the country after
the deportation related in 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:15. OF THE
MULTITUDE] better, 'of the artificers.' In addition to this
deport...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 25
THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM
V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He
marche...
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THE FUGITIVES THAT FELL AWAY — i.e., the deserters. (See Jeremiah
27:12; Jeremiah 37:13 _sea.,_ Jeremiah 38:2; Jeremiah 38:4;...
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וְ אֵת֩ יֶ֨תֶר הָ עָ֜ם הַ
נִּשְׁאָרִ֣ים
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ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH
B.C. 597-586
2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:1
" _ Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de
ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou...
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
B.C. 586
2 Kings 25:1
"In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
nations."
- Zechariah 12:3
"An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...
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THE CAPTIVITY MADE COMPLETE
2 Kings 25:1
As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute
in his dates, marking the _month_ and the _day_. From Ezekiel 24:1 we
gather that on th...
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The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken
to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound
in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...
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Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the
fugitives that (g) fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant
of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry...
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Here we have the final account of Judah as a kingdom. So that from
Joshua's days, in which it began to be formed, to the last of its
kings, Zedeciah, it stood about 850 or 860 years. And the church's...
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Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see
how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh,
young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25.
The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had
led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious
Jehoshap...
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2 Kings 25:8...
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Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of
the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away...
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_Now the rest of the people that were left in the city_ Whom neither
the sword nor famine had destroyed, who were eight hundred and
thirty-two persons, (Jeremiah 52:29,) being members and traders of
t...
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1 Ierusalem is besieged.
4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out.
8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few
poore labourers, into captiuitie,
13 Spoileth and...
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THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
(vv.1-21)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged
Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the
word of the Lord, t...
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FUGITIVES:
_ Heb._ fallen away...
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8-21 The city and temple were burnt, and, it is probable, the ark in
it. By this, God showed how little he cares for the outward pomp of
his worship, when the life and power of religion are neglected...
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THE PEOPLE THAT WERE LEFT IN THE CITY, whom neither the sword nor
famine had destroyed, who were eight hundred and thirty-two persons,
JEREMIAH 52:29, being members and traders of that city; for it is...
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2 Kings 25:11 Nebuzaradan H5018 captain H7227 guard H2876 away H1540
(H8689) rest H3499 people H5971 remained H7604
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3). THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE DEATH OF ITS LEADERS (2
KINGS 25:8).
Kings began with a description of the building of the house of YHWH
and of the king's house (1 Kings 5:1 to 1 Kings...
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CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation.
CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael,
Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin.
CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...
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2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with
the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also
made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...
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_And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._
CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of
Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:8 A few weeks after the fall of
JERUSALEM, the full vengeance of the Babylonian king came upon the
city.
⇐...
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THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah
so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 25:1
THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF
THE REMNANT LEFT
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Ezekiel 12:15; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezekiel 22:15; Ezekiel 22:16; Ezekiel
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People — Whom neither the sword nor famine had destroyed, who were
eight hundred and thirty two persons, Jeremiah 52:29, being members
and traders of that city: for it is likely, there were very many...