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Jeremiah 39:5

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 39:5 Zedekiah did not get far when he fled (v. Jeremiah 39:4). The plains of Jericho were perhaps as few as 14 miles (23 km) east of Jerusalem. Riblah. In Syria, 65 miles (105 km) north of Damascus. Nebuchadnezzar ruled his armies and pronounced judgment on enemies there.

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See also Jeremiah 39:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 39:5. _TO RIBLAH_] This city was situated on the northern frontier of Palestine, and Hamath was a large city belonging also to Syria. See Genesis 10:18....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two accounts are slight....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 39 _ 1. The fall of Jerusalem and the fate of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 39:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's kindness to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:10) 3. Ebed-melech's reward (Jeremiah 39:15)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FALL OF JERUSALEM: JEREMIAH SPARED. This paragraph well illustrates the growth of the OT text; _cf._ 2 Kings 25:1 (also reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4, from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JERICHO. Thus, Jericho was the scene of Israel's _first_ victory (Joshua 6), and _final_ defeat. RIBLAH. Now _Hibleh,_ on the east bank of the Greekntes, thirty-five miles north-east of Baalbek, the b...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note and summary to ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the plains of Jericho_ the W. side of the Arabah. _Riblah (Ribleh_) between the mountain ranges of Lebanon and Hermon. It was a suitable halting-place for Nebuchadnezzar, as being on the high road b...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH— Most interpreters suppose this city to be the same which was called Antioch in after-times, when it was taken by Seleucus: in this sense the Jerusalem Targum upon Numb...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Capture of the King Jeremiah 39:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw them, they fled by going out at night from the city by way of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM (11TH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH) The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25. 1-7. The city taken. Zedekiah's fate...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RIBLAH] on the high road between Palestine and Babylon....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO. — Here again we have the distinctive word, the _Araboth_ of the Jordan, the enlargement of the Jordan valley, three miles wide, near Jericho. The intention of the king was ap...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּרְדְּפ֨וּ חֵיל ־כַּשְׂדִּ֜ים אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם וַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was mad...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But the Chaldeans' army pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to (c) Riblah in the land of Hamat...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In the land, or environs of Emesa, in Syria. (Theodoret) --- Judgment. Reproaching him with perfidy and ingratitude. (Worthington) --- He slew the nobles, as his accomplices._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of reject...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Chaldeans pursued the fugitive king, no doubt, through a hidden impulse from above. It is, indeed, probable that he was betrayed by his own people; and this often happens in a disturbed state of t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE CHALDEAN ARMY PURSUED AFTER THEM,.... Being informed of the flight of them, by those who surrendered to them, as Josephus says; or not finding the king, his family, nobles, and guards, at the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls_ Betwixt the wall and the outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5. S...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JERUSALEM TAKEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, the attempt of Zedekiah and his soldiers to escape being noticed very soon and the alarm accordingly given, AND OVERTOOK ZEDEKIAH IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM: _ Heb._ spake with him judgments...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thus God by his providence fulfilled his threatening by his prophet Ezekiel, EZEKIEL 17:12. Riblah was upon the borders of Canaan, as appeareth from NUMBERS 34:11; it was in the land of Hamath, of whi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 39:5 Chaldean H3778 army H2428 pursued H7291 (H8799) H310 overtook H5381 (H8686) Zedekiah H6667 plains...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final captivity of Judah in accordance with the prophets. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim, Rab-saris, Rab-mag, Nebuzaradan, Jeremiah, Nebushas...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 39:1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged Jerusalem._ On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their lot,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon._ THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAH The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most tragi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_Cf_. notes _in loc_. chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans broke...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, and Jeremiah 39:4) have been insert...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and began their siege. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 25:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Riblah — Riblah was upon the borders of Canaan. Zedekiah was a tributary to the king of Babylon, and so subject to his power, having made a covenant with him, and secured his allegiance by his oath to...

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