2 Kings 25:8

Burning of Jerusalem, the temple, and all the chief buildings. More captives taken. The brass work of the temple carried off. Captives slain at Riblah (2 Chronicles 36:17-23; Jeremiah 52:12-29)

8. on the seventhday] Jeremiah says the tenth day. The slight differences in numbers are easily accounted for when we remember that the Hebrews marked their numbers by letters, and that there is great similarity between many of the letters of their alphabet.

Nebuzar-adan, captain[R.V. the captain] of the guard The title -captain of the guard", literally -chief of the slaughterers", is found in Genesis 37:36 and frequently afterwards in that book. Then only in 2 Kings 25 and in Jeremiah 39 and following Chapter s, all relating to the Babylonian captivity. Probably this officer was at first the executioner, and the name was retained after the duties had been delegated. We find in 1Ki 2:25; 1 Kings 2:35; 1 Kings 2:46, Benaiah the captain of Solomon's host acting as the executioner of Adonijah, Joab and Shimei.

This officer Nebuzar-adan was sent by Nebuchadnezzar to take charge of all that was done after Jerusalem had been actually taken. His behaviour to Jeremiah was of the most generous character, and appears to have been guided by the directions of the king of Babylon. (Cf. Jeremiah 40:4 with Jeremiah 39:11-12.) We hear of another visit of Nebuzar-adan to Jerusalem in the 23rd year of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 52:30), when he carried off 745 additional captives with him to Babylon.