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Verse Jeremiah 52:21. Jeremiah 52:18....
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The fillet means a measuring line; the pillars were 12 cubits, i. e.,
18 feet, in circumference, and thus the diameter would be 5 feet 9
inches. As the brass was four fingers, i. e., scarcely four inc...
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CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON
These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon,
her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the
statement “thus far are the words of Jere...
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JEREMIAH 52. HISTORICAL APPENDIX. This is taken from 2 Kings 24:18
ff., and gives an account of the capture of Jerusalem, etc., in 586,
_i.e._ of the fulfilment of Jeremiah's repeated declarations. Ex...
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PILLARS. Compare 1 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 25:17.
CUBITS. See App-51....
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_eighteen cubits_ a cubit was about 18 inches....
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Severities following upon the capture
12. From this to Jeremiah 52:23, a part of the narrative which has
been summarized in Jeremiah 39:8-10, we find in almost verbal accord
with 2 Kings 25:8-17....
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Cp. 1 Kings 7:15-18....
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C. The Plunder of the Temple Jeremiah 52:17-23
TRANSLATION
(17) As for the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the
LORD, the bases, the bronze sea which was in the house of the LORD,
the Ch...
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And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the
thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
THE HEIGHT OF ONE...
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HISTORICAL APPENDIX (PROBABLY BY THE COMPILER OF THE BOOK)
This chapter is substantially the same as Jeremiah 39 (see notes
there), but adds particulars relating to the Temple vessels (Jeremiah
52:17....
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(21-23) AND CONCERNING THE PILLARS... — In 2 Kings 25:16 we have a
list abbreviated by the omission of some of the measurements and of
the number and arrangement of the pomegranates. “Chapiter” is the...
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וְ הָ עַמּוּדִ֗ים שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה
אַמָּה֙ _קֹומַת֙_†
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CHAPTER XIII
GEDALIAH
Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1
"Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
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The last chapter of the Book of Jeremiah consists of a historical
appendix written, as the final words of the previous chapter show, by
another hand. It first gives a brief account of the capture of t...
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The last chapter forms no part of the book of Jeremiah, properly so
called. We find in it events relative to the destruction of Jerusalem
and of the temple. After the remarks we have made, that which...
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AND [CONCERNING] THE PILLARS, THE HEIGHT OF ONE PILLAR [WAS] EIGHTEEN
CUBITS,.... As in 1 Kings 7:15; said to be thirty five, 2 Chronicles
3:15; of the reconciliation of which,
2 Chronicles 3:15:...
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Jeremiah 52:21. _The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits_ The
same account is given of the height of these pillars, 1 Kings 7:15:
but in 2 Chronicles 3:15, it is said, that both the pillars made...
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DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
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And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits, and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it, that, in round
numbers, being the circumference of either of the pillars; AND TH...
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FILLET:
_ Heb._ thread...
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12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so
particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the
temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more
t...
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This agreeth with 1 KINGS 7:15, where what is called here a fillet is
called a thread; concerning the height of the pillars, we read the
same 2 KINGS 25:17 2 CHRONICLES 3:15....
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM WHICH IS THEN
FOLLOWED BY THE PART RESTORATION OF THE DAVIDIC KING (JEREMIAH 52:1).
In this narrative, which on the whole is a repetition of 2 Kin...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE TEMPLE FOLLOWED BY THE TAKING
OF EXILES AND THE TREASURES OF THE TEMPLE TO BABYLON (JEREMIAH 52:12).
Having taken Jerusalem Nebuzaradan, the commander of the ki...
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CONTENTS: A retrospect: overthrow and capture of Judah. The latter
days of Jehoiachin.
CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar,
Seraiah, Zephaniah, Evil-merodach.
CONCLU...
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Jeremiah 52:1. _Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to
reign._ This and the two following verses are taken from 2 Kings
24:18; and the seven succeeding verses are taken from the thirty...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 52:1 Conclusion: The Fall of Jerusalem.
The book ends by describing Jerusalem’s fall and Zedekiah’s
blinding (vv. Jeremiah 52:1), the destr
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter forms a historical
appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Its AUTHORSHIP is conjectural. They
who think Jeremiah penned it urge that the closing words of chap. 5...
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EXPOSITION
The contents of this chapter prove that it is not an independent
narrative, but the concluding part of a history of the kings of Judah.
It agrees almost word for word with 2 Kings 24:18-12,...
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1 Kings 7:15; 2 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 25:17...