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.), while omitting Nebuchadnezzar's charge as to Jeremiah's safety (Jeremiah 39:11.). Both accounts... [ Continue Reading ]
NEBUCHADREZZAR] see on Jeremiah 21:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMINE] described in detail in the 'Lamentations.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP] RV 'Then a breach was made in the city.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RIBLAH] see on Jeremiah 39:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE PUT OUT THE EYES] see on Jeremiah 39:7. 17F. See prefatory remarks.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALDRONS] RV 'pots,' for carrying away ashes after sacrificing.... [ Continue Reading ]
A CHAPITER] a capital.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEPHANIAH] see on Jeremiah 21:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCIPAL SCRIBE OF THE HOST] RV 'the scribe of the captain of the host.' 28-30. This passage seems to have been taken by the compiler from a separate document. For SEVENTH we should probably read 'seventeenth,' corresponding to Zedekiah's tenth year, while the siege was going on. Thus this cap... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVEN AND THIRTIETH YEAR] 561 b.c. EVIL-MERODACH] son of Nebuchadnezzar. LIFTED UP THE HEAD] released: cp. Genesis 40:13; Genesis 40:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KINGS] captives kept at his court to commemorate his conquests.... [ Continue Reading ]
He was admitted to the king's table.... [ Continue Reading ]