“ And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ”
The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities - famine, pestilence, and intense suffering - are best understood from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, written probably almost immedi...
2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7 . Zedekiah. Destruction of Temple and City. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour...
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And the city was besieged, etc. - Nebuchadnezzar, having routed the Egyptian army, returned to Jerusalem, and besieged it so closely...
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Fall of Jerusalem This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people.
Unto the eleventh year. — The siege lasted altogether one year, five months, and twenty-seven days ( 2 Kings 25:1 compared with 2 Kings 25:8 ). The Chaldæans raised the siege for a time, and marc...
ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH B.C. 597-586 2 Kings 24:18-20 ; 2 Kings 25:1-7 " Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en e...
the Captivity Made Complete 2 Kings 25:1-12 As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute in his dates, marking the month and the day . From Ezekiel 24:1 we gather...
The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror a...
As we read in the foregoing chapter that Jerusalem was taken, and here that it was besieged, we should remember in order to have a clear apprehension of the history, that though Jerusalem had been co...
2 Kings 25:1
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. Ver. 2. Unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ] Which was a full year and half; yet so as that the siege was raised for a time...
THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH (vv.1-21) In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the word of the Lor...
Jerusalem Besieged. B. C. 590. 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in...
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THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 25:1 . In the ninth year of his reign —The revolt of Zedekiah so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the fin...
2 Kings 25:18 . Seraiah, the father of Ezra, was put to death with the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found...
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign. Captivity of Judah We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter wa...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 25:1-12 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM . THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY . HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT BEHIND . RELEASE FROM PRISON OF JEHO...
Judah Carried into Captivity