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Verse 2 Kings 25:22. _MADE GEDALIAH - RULER._] This was no _regal_
dignity; he was only a sort of _hind_ or _overseer_, appointed to
regulate the _husbandmen_....
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We may be allowed to conjecture that Jeremiah, in gratitude for
Ahikam’s service to himself Jeremiah 26:24, recommended his son
Gedaliah to Nebuzaradan, and through him to Nebuchadnezzar, for the
offi...
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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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Gedaliah is made governor of the people remaining in Jerusalem. He is
slain, and the people flee to Egypt (Not in Chronicles. Cf. Jeremiah,
chaps. 40. and 41)
22. _And_as for _the people that remaine...
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GEDALIAH, THE SON OF AHIKAM— Ahikam, the father of Gedaliah, was a
person in such credit in all the latter reigns, that he had been able
to screen Jeremiah from the resentment of the king, and the fur...
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B. THE APPOINTMENT AND ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH 25:22-26
TRANSLATION
(22) As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them
G...
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_AND AS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, WHOM
NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON HAD LEFT, EVEN OVER THEM HE MADE
GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM, THE SON OF SHAPHAN, RULER._
No JFB commenta...
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25:22 Shaphan. (b-33) With vers. 23-24. compare Jeremiah 40:7-9 ....
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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 SON OF AHIKAM] Ahikam had befriended Jeremiah when the people
sought to put him to death (Jeremiah 26:24)....
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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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GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM. — Ahikam was one of Josiah’s princes
(2 Kings 22:12). In the reign of Jehoiakim he saved the prophet
Jeremiah from the popular fury (Jeremiah 26:24). Nebuzaradan committed...
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(22-26) An extract from Jeremiah 40-63, relating to the people left in
the land....
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וְ הָ עָ֗ם הַ נִּשְׁאָר֙ בְּ אֶ֣רֶץ
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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...
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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...
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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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_Godolias. The Rabbins say that he had gone over to the Chaldeans:
Jeremias (xxxvii. 2, 17.) had advised all to do so, and Godolias was
of an easy complying disposition. (Grotius) --- But God did not...
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Jeremiah had told Baruch that his life should be given for a prey, and
here we find certain of the people were preserved, Jeremiah 45:5. It
was the mercy of God, in the midst of judgment, to incline t...
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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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Ver. 22-24. AND AS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED,.... That were left in
the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen; over these the king of
Babylon made Gedaliah governor, to whom the captains, with the...
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And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
Ver. 22. _Over...
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_Over them he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, ruler_ A righteous and
good man, and a friend to the Prophet Jeremiah, Jeremiah 26:24.
Ahikam, his father, was a person in such credit in all the latter...
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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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GEDALIAH GOVERNOR OF JUDAH...
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And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had left, even over them he made
Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. Ahikam had
been...
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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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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...
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2 Kings 25:22 Gedaliah H1436 son H1121 Ahikam H296 son H1121 Shaphan
H8227 governor H6485 (H8686) people H5971 rem
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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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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 25:22 GEDALIAH, the new GOVERNOR of the
territory that once was Judah, was the grandson of King Josiah’s
secretary SHAPHAN. His assassination caused a ge
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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 Chronicles 34:20; 2 Kings 22:12; 2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 26:24;...
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Gedaliah — A righteous and good man, and a friend to the prophet
Jeremiah....