_ZEDEKIAH SENDETH TO JEREMIAH TO INQUIRE THE EVENT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S WAR. JEREMIAH FORETELLETH A HARD SIEGE, AND MISERABLE CAPTIVITY: HE COUNSELLETH THE PEOPLE TO FALL TO THE CHALDEANS, AND UPBRAIDETH THE KING'S HOUSE._ _Before Christ 589._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH— Nebuchadrezzar having besieged Jerusalem a second time, under Zedekiah, the king sent to consult Jeremiah concerning the success of this war. This happened in the second year of the siege, in the year of the world 3415. There are some who think that the _Pashur_ he... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL ASSEMBLE THEM— That is "the Chaldeans, to destroy you with your own arms.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL DELIVER ZEDEKIAH— See the execution of these menaces in chap. 52: and 2 Kings 25. We may just observe, that Zedekiah himself was not slain, but carried to Babylon, where he died, though his sons and his great men were slain by the command of Nebuchadrezzar: but it is common with all writers t... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE— _Behold, I am against thee, who sittest in the valley of Segor, in the midst of the plain:_ Houbigant; who thinks that Jerusalem is here meant, which, like another Segor, was to be utterly destroyed. See his note. Bishop Newton remarks, that the Jews confided in the streng... [ Continue Reading ]