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 the very day when the foe made his appearance before Jerusalem, the fact was revealed to Ezekiel in Ba... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TEMPLE DESPOILED 2 Kings 25:13 The Temple, after 420 years of varying fortune, was burned to the ground, and the remainder of its treasures carried off. A few years after, Nebuchadnezzar set up an image of gold on the plains of Dura, Daniel 3:1. It has been suggested that this image was probab... [ Continue Reading ]
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 constant friend to Jeremiah. See Jeremiah 40:6. His brief rule brought a gleam of light, a transient... [ Continue Reading ]