2Ki 25:1
25:1 And it came to pass in the {a} ninth year of his reign, in
     the {b} tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month,
     [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his
     host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they
     built forts against it round about.

     (a) That is, of Zedekiah.
     (b) Which the Hebrews call Teber, and it contains part of
         December and part of January.

2Ki 25:3
25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine {c}
     prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the
     people of the land.

     (c) So much that the mothers ate their children,
         @La 4:10.

2Ki 25:4
25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled]
     by night by the way of the {d} gate between two walls,
     which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were]
     against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way
     toward the plain.

     (d) Which was a back door, or some secret gate to leave by.

2Ki 25:6
25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
     Babylon to Riblah; and they {e} gave judgment upon him.

     (e) Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason,
         @2Ch 36:13.

2Ki 25:8
25:8 And in the fifth month, on the {f} seventh [day] of the
     month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king
     Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain
     of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto
     Jerusalem:

     (f) Jeremiah writes in @Jer 52:12 the tenth day,
         because the fire continued from the seventh day to the
         tenth.

2Ki 25:11
25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city,
      and the fugitives that {g} fell away to the king of
      Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did
      Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.

      (g) While the siege endured.

2Ki 25:14
25:14 And the {h} pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
      the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
      ministered, took they away.

      (h) Of these read @Ex 27:3.

2Ki 25:18
25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
      priest, and Zephaniah the {i} second priest, and the three
      keepers of the door:

      (i) That is, one appointed to act in the place of the high
          priest, if he were sick or otherwise detained.

2Ki 25:19
25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over
      the men of war, and {k} five men of them that were in the
      king's presence, which were found in the city, and the
      principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of
      the land, and threescore men of the people of the land
      [that were] found in the city:

      (k) Jeremiah makes mention of seven but here he speaks of
          those who were the chiefest.

2Ki 25:24
25:24 And Gedaliah {l} sware to them, and to their men, and said
      unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:
      dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it
      shall be well with you.

      (l) That is, he exhorted them in the Name of the Lord,
          according to Jeremiah's counsel, to submit themselves
          to Nebuchadnezzar, seeing it was the revealed will of
          the Lord.

2Ki 25:26
25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains
      of the armies, arose, and came to {m} Egypt: for they were
      afraid of the Chaldees.

      (m) Contrary to Jeremiah's counsel in Jeremiah 40-42.

2Ki 25:27
25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
      captivity of {n} Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
      month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month,
      [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he
      began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of
      Judah out of prison;

      (n) This long were he, his wife and his children in
          Babylon, whom Nebuchadnezzar's son after his father's
          death preferred to honour: thus by God's providence
          the seed of David was preserved even to Christ.

2Ki 25:30
25:30 And his {o} allowance [was] a continual allowance given
      him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days
      of his life.

      (o) Meaning, that he had standing in the court.



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