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TO RIBLAH - See 2 Kings 23:33 note. A position from where
Nebuchadnezzar could most conveniently superintend the operations
against Tyre and Jerusalem. In the absence of the monarch, the siege
of Jeru...
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3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW
CHAPTER 25
_ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles
36:17)_
2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22)
3. J
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2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND
CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to
have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremia...
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TOOK THE KING AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE KING OF BABYLON TO RIBLAH.
Nebuchadnezzar's headquarters were now at Riblah on the northern
limits of Palestine,. point from whence he could direct the two sieges...
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RIBLAH. See note on 2 Kings 23:33.
THEY. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "he".
GAVE JUDGMENTS. passed sentence. Compare 2 Kings 24:20....
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_So_[R.V. THEN] _they took the king, and brought him up to_[R.V. UNTO]
_the king of Babylon_ Nebuchadnezzar was stationed at some distance,
and was awaiting the issue of the campaign. The verb rendere...
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V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7
TRANSLATION
(18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of hi...
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_SO THEY TOOK THE KING, AND BROUGHT HIM UP TO THE KING OF BABYLON TO
RIBLAH; AND THEY GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM._
They took the king, and brought him ... to Riblah. Nebuchadnezzar,
having gone from the...
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the
capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish
people....
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 25
THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM
V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He
marche...
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TO THE KING OF BABYLON, TO RIBLAH. — 2 Kings 23:33. Nebuchadnezzar
was not present at the storm of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 39:3). He awaited
the result in his headquarters.
AND THEY GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM...
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וַֽ יִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙ אֶת ־הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ וַ
יַּעֲל֥
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ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH
B.C. 597-586
2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:1
" _ Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de
ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou...
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THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
B.C. 586
2 Kings 25:1
"In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
nations."
- Zechariah 12:3
"An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...
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THE CAPTIVITY MADE COMPLETE
2 Kings 25:1
As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute
in his dates, marking the _month_ and the _day_. From Ezekiel 24:1 we
gather that on th...
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The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken
to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound
in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...
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So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to
Riblah; and they (e) gave judgment upon him.
(e) Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason, (2 Chronicles
36:13)....
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Rablatha, the Antioch of Syria, (St. Jerome) which was styled also
Ephiphania, (Tirinus) or more probably Apamea, where Nabuchodonosor
was, when Jerusalem was taken. --- Upon him, by the advice of his...
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The history in this place is but shortly related, just to manifest
God's certain judgments: but very long and painful must have been the
process of them in their execution. Jeremiah had been long prea...
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Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see
how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh,
young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25.
The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had
led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious
Jehoshap...
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2 Kings 25:1...
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So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to
Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
Ver. 6. _To Riblah._] A city of Syria, which was afterwards called
Apamia; as the Jerusale...
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_And brought him to the king of Babylon, to Riblah_ Where
Nebuchadnezzar stayed, that he might both supply the besiegers with
men and military provisions, as their occasions required, and have an
eye...
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1 Ierusalem is besieged.
4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out.
8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few
poore labourers, into captiuitie,
13 Spoileth and...
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So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon, to
Riblah, a city in a fruitful plain in the north, where the
headquarters of Nebuchadnezzar had been established; AND THEY GAVE
JUDGM...
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JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY...
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THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
(vv.1-21)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged
Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the
word of the Lord, t...
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GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM:
_ Heb._ spake judgment with him...
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1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till
famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and
Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffic...
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TO RIBLAH; of which SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 23:33", and SEE POOLE ON "2
KINGS 25:21", where Nebuchadnezzar staid, that he might both supply
the besiegers with more men, and military provisions, as their...
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CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation.
CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael,
Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin.
CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...
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2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with
the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also
made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...
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_And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._
CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of
Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...
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THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah
so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 25:1
THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF
THE REMNANT LEFT
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2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 23:33; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 17:21;...
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Riblah — Where Nebuchadnezzar staid, that he might both supply the
besiegers with men, and military provisions, as their occasions
required; and have an eye to Chaldea, to prevent or suppress any
comm...