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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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LAND. soil....
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Omitted in ch. 39, but cp. with it 2 Kings 25:18-21....
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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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II. EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO THE FALL OF JERUSALEM Jeremiah 52:24-34
A. The Execution of the Princes Jeremiah 52:24-27
TRANSLATION
(24) And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Ze...
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_SO NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK THEM, AND BROUGHT THEM
TO THE KING OF BABYLON TO RIBLAH._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ יַּכֶּ֣ה אֹותָם֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֧ל
וַ יְמִתֵ
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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 THE KING OF BABYLON SMOTE THEM,.... Or ordered them to be smitten
with the sword; to have their heads cut off, according to Josephus l:
AND PUT THEM TO DEATH IN RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH; thes...
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DISPOSITION OF THE SPOIL AND OF THE CAPTIVES...
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And the king of Babylon smote them, for the part they had taken in the
rebellion of Judah, AND PUT THEM TO DEATH IN RIBLAH, IN THE LAND OF
HAMATH, the Syrian province in the extreme northern part of P...
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24-30 The leaders of the Jews caused them to err; but now they are, in
particular, made monuments of Divine justice. Here is an account of
two earlier captivities. This people often were wonders both...
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See 2 KINGS 25:20,21....
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THE EXECUTION OF JUDAH'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS AND THE EXILE
OF ITS LEADING CITIZENS (JEREMIAH 52:24).
Nebuzaradan now selected out what remained of the leading citizens in
Jerusalem for exe...
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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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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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2 Kings 17:20; 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 23:27; 2 Kings 25:20; 2