Jeremiah 39:1

CHAPTER XXXIX

This chapter gives an account of the siege and taking of

Jerusalem; the flight, capture, and punishment of Zedekiah;

the burning of the city; and the carrying away of the people,

(a few of the meanest excepted,) to Babylon, 1-10;

also of the release of Jeremiah, and the special orders of

Nebuchadnezzar concerning him, 11-14.

The remaining verses relate to the subject of the preceding

chapter; and contain promises of personal safety to Ebed-melech

the Ethiopian amidst the public calamities, on account of his

piety, and his humanity to the prophet, 15-18.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIX

Verse Jeremiah 39:1. In the ninth year of Zedekiah - in the tenth month] This month is called Tebeth in Esther 2:16. It began with the first new moon of our January, and it was on the tenth day of this month that Nebuchadnezzar invested the city.