Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Kings 25:28
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, holding him in higher estimation, giving him the preference and a higher rank than the others.
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, holding him in higher estimation, giving him the preference and a higher rank than the others.
THE KINGS THAT WERE WITH HIM - Probably captive kings, like Jehoiachin himself. Compare Judges 1:7....
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
JEHOIACHIN RESTORED TO HONOUR. Nebuchadrezzar succeeded his father 605 B.C., and reigned till 562 B.C. The first captivity took place thirty-seven years before Jehoiachin's release, or about 598 B.C....
KINDLY. good words. THRONE. seat (Proverbs 9:14)....
_and set his throne above the throne_, &c. i.e. He gave him precedence, perhaps by causing him to sit at the table in a place nearer to himself, and also by manifesting special regard for him. That ot...
C. THE RELEASE OF KING JEHOIACHIN 25:27-30 TRANSLATION (27) And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh da...
_AND HE SPAKE KINDLY TO HIM, AND SET HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF THE KINGS THAT WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON;_ And he spake kindly - gave him liberty upon parole. Jehoiachin had continued a state-pris...
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....
THE KINGS THAT _were_ WITH HIM] possibly other captive sovereigns....
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...
(27-30) The captivity of Jehoiachin ameliorated by the new king of Babylon. (See Jeremiah 52:31.)...
SET HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF THE KINGS ... — Gave him precedence of the other captive kings who were kept at the Babylonian court by way of enhancing its glory (comp. Judges 1:7), and probably m...
וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתֹּ֖ו טֹבֹ֑ות וַ יִּתֵּן֙ אֶת
GEDALIAH B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:22 " _ Vedi che son un che piango._ " - DANTE, "Inferno." "No rather steel thy melting heart To act the martyr s sternest part, To watch with firm, unshrinking eye Th...
THE REMNANT FLEE TO EGYPT 2 Kings 25:22 Thus at last the city, which had been full of people, sat solitary, bewailed by Jeremiah in exquisite elegies. The poorest only were left, under Gedaliah, the...
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...
_Kings, who had been made captives. Adonibezec had 70, Judges i. 7. Alexander kept Porus and Taxilus at his court, as Cyrus and done Cr\'9csus, whom he treated with great distinction. The prosperity o...
It is hardly possible to read the wonderful change in the circumstances of Jehoiachin, who, after so long a period as thirty-seven years lying in a prison, is brought forth to liberty, and to the king...
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...
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...
2 Kings 25:27...
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon; Ver. 28. _And he spake kindly to him._] Heb., Good things with him: he both spake and did...
_Evil-merodach, king of Babylon_ “Nebuchadnezzar, the father of Evil-merodach, died in the year of the world 3442, and before Christ 562, after he had reigned from the death of his father, according t...
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...
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...
KINDLY TO HIM: _ Heb._ good things with him...
22-30 The king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah to be the governor and protector of the Jews left their land. But the things of their peace were so hidden from their eyes, that they knew not when they w...
It seems, though the power of these kings was taken away, yet some honour and respect was given to them, even in the place of their captivity, and to Jehoiachin more than to any of the rest....
2 Kings 25:28 spoke H1696 (H8762) kindly H2896 gave H5414 (H8799) seat H3678 those H3678 kings H4428 Babylon...
THE PARTIAL RESTORATION OF JEHOIACHIN, IN BABYLON (2 KINGS 25:27). There can be no question that the purpose of this final narrative is to indicate that YHWH's hand was still on the house of David. It...
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...
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...
_And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin._ JEHOIACHIN AS A VICTIM OF TYRANNIC DESPOTISM AND AS AN OBJECT OF DELIVERING MERCY The incident here recorded pre...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:27 EVIL-MERODACH was Nebuchadnezzar’s son and successor. His release of the Judean king FROM PRISON in 561 B.C. gives the reader some hope that there is still a future fo
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...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT
Daniel 2:37; Daniel 5:18; Daniel 5:19; Jeremiah 27:6...