JEREMIAH CHAPTER 52 A repetition of the reign of Zedekiah: of the siege, taking, and destruction of Jerusalem; with the causes thereof; and what further happened there, JEREMIAH 52:1. Evil-merodach advanceth Jehoiachin, JEREMIAH 52:31. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
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It is generally thought that what we have in this chapter was not penned by the prophet Jeremiah, who it is not probable would have so largely repeated what he had related before, JER 39, and could not historically relate what happened after his time, as some things did, which are mentioned towards... [ Continue Reading ]
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This history is found 2 KINGS 25:1, much in the same words. See the annotations on that chapter. Jeremiah also hath the substance of it, JEREMIAH 39:1; only neither of those places have the last words, from whence we learn that Zedekiah died in Babylon a prisoner.... [ Continue Reading ]
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SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:8", SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:9", SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:10", SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:11", SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:12" where all this is related, only with a small difference as to the day of the month when Nebuzar-adan came to Jerusalem and burned the temple. In the King... [ Continue Reading ]
The particular enumeration of the parts and utensils of the temple, mentioned in this and in the following verses, may be conceived to have been to justify the prophecy of Jeremiah, JEREMIAH 27:19, where there is a particular mention made of the pillars, the bases, and the sea, that they should all,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CALDRONS ALSO: these were called pots, 2 KINGS 25:14. AND THE SHOVELS; which were to remove the ashes from the altar. THE SNUFFERS: some think that this word in this place were better translated _tongs_, because he is speaking of instruments of brass; and that those utensils are not here underst... [ Continue Reading ]
Some of these utensils were only of brass; others were some of them brass, some of silver, some of gold: the captain of the guard carried away all, both those of silver, and those of gold, and those of brass.... [ Continue Reading ]
Solomon made two pillars, 1 KINGS 7:15, which, JEREMIAH 52:21, he called _Jachin and Boaz_; JEREMIAH 52:23, a molten sea, ten cubits broad; this, JEREMIAH 52:25, stood upon twelve oxen, and had ten bases, JEREMIAH 52:27: the making of all these took up a vast quantity of brass, as any one will easil... [ Continue Reading ]
This agreeth with 1 KINGS 7:15, where what is called here a fillet is called a thread; concerning the height of the pillars, we read the same 2 KINGS 25:17 2 CHRONICLES 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
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There are some differences as to the measure of these chapiters betwixt 2 KINGS 25:17 and this text; here the height of them is made to be five cubits, there it is said to be three cubits: that which is said to resolve this difficulty is, that there were three parts in the chapiter, the square, the... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 25:18", where we have the same words. This Seraiah was not he mentioned JEREMIAH 51:59, but the son of Azariah, 1 CHRONICLES 6:14. By the SECOND PRIEST, interpreters understand him that supplied the place of the high priest in case he were sick, &c., he that was sent by Zedekia... [ Continue Reading ]
See 2 KINGS 25:19; only there is mention out of _five men_, here there is mention of seven, but probably two of them were of less note.... [ Continue Reading ]
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That is, in the time of Jehoiachin, 2 KINGS 24:12; here it is said to be in the seventh year, there in the eighth year, it might be in part of both. But there is a difference in the number of the captives, which are here said to be three thousand and twenty-three, and 2 KINGS 24:14,16, seven thousan... [ Continue Reading ]
That was the year when the city was broken up.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this we read nothing in holy writ; some judge it to have been upon occasion of Ishmael's killing Gedaliah, but this was four years after the taking of the city, and we are not certain what at this time brought again the Chaldean forces.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jehoiachin began his reign at eighteen years of age, 2 KINGS 24:8, and reigned but three months, but that he yielded himself to the king of Babylon besieging him, JEREMIAH 52:12, in the eighth year of the king of Babylon's reign. He was a prisoner in Babylon, (as appeareth by this text,) in which ci... [ Continue Reading ]
The king of Babylon might have other kings his prisoners, his father having been so great a conqueror, or he might have other kings his subjects, that might reside at his court; and either out of a particular kindness he had to Jehoiachin, or in regard of the fame of David and Solomon, from whom Jeh... [ Continue Reading ]
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He treated him like a prince, with a respect becoming his former state, took care both for his habit and diet: for his habit, that it should be decent, such as became a person of his quality, though a captive: for his diet, that he should have it in his court, thereby learning others that humanity w... [ Continue Reading ]