2 Kings 24:2
Bands — For Nebuchadnezzar's army was made up of several nations, who were willing to fight under the banner of such a puissant and victorious emperor.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bands — For Nebuchadnezzar's army was made up of several nations, who were willing to fight under the banner of such a puissant and victorious emperor.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sins — Properly and directly for their own sins, and occasionally for the sins of Manasseh, which had never been charged upon them, if they had not made them their own by their repetition of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
With his fathers — But it is not said, he was buried with them. No doubt the prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled, that he should not be lamented as his father was, but buried with the burial of an ass.... [ Continue Reading ]
Came not — In this king's days. He could not now come to protect the king of Judah, being scarce able to defend his own kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
To reign — In his eighth year he began to reign with his father, who made him king with him as divers other kings of Israel and Judah had done in times of trouble; and in his eighteenth year he reigned alone.... [ Continue Reading ]
Went out — Yielded up himself and the city into his hands; and this by the counsel of Jeremiah, and to his own good. His reign — Of Nebuchadnezzar's reign; as appears by comparing this with 2 Kings 25:8, and because Jehoiachin reigned not half a year. Had he made his peace with God, and taken the me... [ Continue Reading ]
Vessels — The most and choicest of them, by comparing this with 2 Kings 25:14. Solomon made — Though the city and temple had been rifled more than once both by the kings of Egypt and Israel, and by the wicked kings of Judah; yet these golden vessels were preserved from them, either by the case of th... [ Continue Reading ]
All — Not simply all, but the best and most considerable part, as the following words explain it. Captives — Which are more particularly reckoned up, 2 Kings 24:16, where there are seven thousand mighty men, and a thousand smiths; and those mentioned 2 Kings 24:15, make up the other two thousand. Cr... [ Continue Reading ]
Zedekiah — That he might admonish him of (what this name signifies) the justice of God, which had so severely punished Jehoiakim for his rebellion; and would no less certainly overtake him, if he should be guilty of the same perfidiousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Came to pass — Thus the peoples sins were the true cause why God gave them wicked kings, whom he suffered to do wickedly, that they might bring the long — deserved, and threatened punishments upon themselves and their people.... [ Continue Reading ]