IN HIS DAYS - i. e., 605 B.C., which was the third completed Daniel 1:1, and fourth commencing Jeremiah 25:1, year of Jehoiakim. NEBUCHADNEZZAR - or Nebuchadrezzar, which is closer to the original, Nabu-kudurri-uzur. This name, like most Babylonian names, is made up of three elements, Nebo, the well... [ Continue Reading ]
See the marginal references. Instead of coming up in person Nebuchadnezzar sent against Jehoiakim his own troops and those of the neighboring nations. The ravages of the Moabites and the Ammonites are especially alluded to in the following passages: Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 49:1; Ezekiel 25:3; Zeph... [ Continue Reading ]
Comparing Jeremiah 22:19; Jeremiah 36:6, Jeremiah 36:30; and Ezekiel 19:8, it would seem that Nebuchadnezzar must in the fifth or sixth year after Jehoiakim’s revolt have determined to go in person to Riblah, to direct operations, first against Tyre and then against Jerusalem. Jehoiakim was taken pr... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOIACHIN - Also called Jeconiah and Coniah. Jehoiachin and Jeconiah both mean “Yahweh will establish,” Coniah, “Yahweh establishes.” Probably his original name was Jehoiachin. When he ascended the throne, and was required to take a new name, anxious not to lose the good men contained in his old on... [ Continue Reading ]
Neco, from the year of the battle of Carchemish, confined himself to his own country and made no efforts to recover Syria or Judaea.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS MOTHER’S NAME - On the position of the “queen mother” see 1 Kings 15:10 note. Nehushta’s rank and dignity are strongly marked by the distinct and express mention which is made of her in almost every place where her son’s history is touched (2 Kings 24:12; compare Jeremiah 22:26; Jeremiah 29:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM - The cause and circumstances of this siege are equally obscure. Perhaps Nebuchadnezzar detected Jehoiachin in some attempt to open communications with Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EIGHTH YEAR - Jeremiah calls it the seventh year Jeremiah 52:28, a statement which implies only a different manner of counting regnal years.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the first capture of the city in the fourth (third) year of Jehoiakim Daniel 1:2; 2 Chronicles 36:7, the vessels carried off consisted of smaller and lighter articles; while now the heavier articles, as the table of showbread, the altar of incense, the ark of the covenant were stripped of their g... [ Continue Reading ]
The entire number of the captives was not more than 11,000. They consisted of three classes: (1) the “princes” or “mighty of the land,” i. e., courtiers, priests, elders, and all who had any position or dignity - in number 3,000 (compare 2 Kings 24:14, 2 Kings 24:16). (2) the “mighty men of valor”... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MIGHTY OF THE LAND - Or “the great,” “the powerful.” The word used is quite distinct from that in 2 Kings 24:14, 2 Kings 24:16. It refers, not to bodily strength or fitness for war, hut to civil rank or dignity. The term would include all civil and all ecclesiastical functionaries - the nobles,... [ Continue Reading ]
Mattaniah, son of Josiah and brother of Jehoahaz, but thirteen years his junior, adopted a name significant of the blessings promised by Jeremiah to the reign of a king whose name should be “Yahweh, our righteousness” Jeremiah 23:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL - The character of Zedekiah seems to have been weak rather than wicked. Consult Jeremiah 34; Jeremiah 37: His chief recorded sins were: (1) his refusal to be guided in his political conduct by Jeremiah’s counsels, while nevertheless he admitted him to be a true Yahweh-pro... [ Continue Reading ]
IT CAME TO PASS - Some prefer “came this to pass:” in the sense. “Through the anger of the Lord was it that another had king ruled in Jerusalem and in Judah:” concluding the chapter with the word “presence;” and beginning the next chapter with the words, “And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Ba... [ Continue Reading ]