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Verse 2 Kings 25:4. 2 Kings 25:2....
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THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP - Rather, “broken into,” i. e., A breach
was made about midnight in the northern wall Ezekiel 9:2, and an entry
effected into the second or lower city (see the 2 Kings 22:14 not...
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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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2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND
CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to
have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremia...
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AND THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP.
Rather, "broken into.". breach was made in the walls through Which the
enemy entered. Josephus says that the entrance was made at midnight,
and Ezekiel says (9:2) that the...
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BROKEN UP. breached. Before this an Egyptian force approached and the
Babylonians retired (Jeremiah 37:5). The relief was only temporary, as
predicted.
FLED. Some codices, with Syriac, read "the men o...
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_And the city was broken up_ R.V. THEN A BREACH WAS MADE IN THE CITY.
The old phrase -broken up" was the same in sense as -broken through".
See 2 Chronicles 24:7; Jeremiah 39:7; Micah 2:13;...
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THE MEN OF WAR FLED BY NIGHT— It is difficult to conceive how the
besieged could make their escape, as the Chaldees had encompassed the
city. Josephus indeed gives us this account, that as the city wa...
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V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7
TRANSLATION
(18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of hi...
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_AND THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP, AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR FLED BY NIGHT BY
THE WAY OF THE GATE BETWEEN TWO WALLS, WHICH IS BY THE KING'S GARDEN:
(NOW THE CHALDEES WERE AGAINST THE CITY ROUND ABOUT:) AND THE...
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25:4 plain. (a-48) The _ Arabah_ . see Joshua 3:16 . In ver. 5. 'the
parts of the Arabah about Jericho.' so in Jeremiah 39:5 ; Jeremiah
52:8 ....
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THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP] RV 'a breach was made in the city.' Before
this happened an Egyptian force had advanced to the relief of
Jerusalem, and the Babylonians in consequence retired (Jeremiah 37:5),...
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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 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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BROKEN UP. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 32:1. A breach was made in the wall
with battering-rams, such as are depicted in the Assyrian sculptures.
The Chaldæans forced their entry on the north side of the city...
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וַ תִּבָּקַ֣ע הָ עִ֗יר וְ כָל
־אַנְשֵׁ֨י
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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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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by
the way of the (d) gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's
garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:...
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_Walls, by a subterraneous passage, to the plains of Jericho;
(Rabbins) or by the horse gate, which was the most private, and, it
seems, had been walled up, Ezechiel xii. 12. (Menochius)_...
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The history in this place is but shortly related, just to manifest
God's certain judgments: but very long and painful must have been the
process of them in their execution. Jeremiah had been long prea...
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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 25:1...
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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by
the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's
garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) an...
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_The city was broken up_ It was taken by storm, the besiegers having
made a breach in the wall, at which they forced their way into it.
_All the men of war fled_ Being unable any longer to defend the...
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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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1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till
famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and
Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffic...
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THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP by the Chaldeans, who broke and entered the
gate, JEREMIAH 39:3. THE MEN OF WAR FLED; which word is fitly supplied
out of the parallel place, JEREMIAH 39:4, or out of the follow...
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2 Kings 25:4 city H5892 through H1234 (H8735) men H582 war H4421 night
H3915 way H1870 gate H8179 walls...
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AND THE CITY
Times of the Gentiles. (2 Kings 25:1); (Daniel 2:29); (Luke 21:24);
(Revelation 16:19)....
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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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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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2 Kings 25:5; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:25;...