Jeremiah 39:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. ”

• Jeremiah 39:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two accounts are slight.

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Fall of Jerusalem: Jeremiah Spared. This paragraph well illustrates the growth of the OT text; cf. 2 Kings 25:1-12 (also reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4-16 , from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  before his eyes. . specimen of the inhumanity of those days.

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  It is probable that Nebuchadnezzar continued in that pleasant city while Jerusalem was attacked, for he would not endure the weariness of a long siege, and he also wished to be far away from da...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. Slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes - prev...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Capture of Jerusalem (11th year of Zedekiah) The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25 . 1-7. The city taken. Zedeki...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The sons of Zedekiah. — The history of Eastern monarchies presents us with many examples of this refinement of cruelty, notably in the case of (Eobazus under Darius (Herod. Iv. 84), and Pythius und...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1-18 ; Jeremiah 40:1-16 ; Jeremiah 41:1-18 ; Jeremiah 52:1-34 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote with the swo...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was ma...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of rejec...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes ,.... Not with his own hands, but gave orders to do it: these must be very young, at least some of them; since Zedekiah a...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. Ver. 6. See on 2 Kings 25:6,7 .

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls Betwixt the wall and the outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jerusalem Taken. B. C. 588.       1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thus the stubbornness of this prince and his nobles proved the ruin of his family, and of themselves, and of the whole people. The nobles were great authors of this mischief, and brought Zedekiah int...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. — Cf . notes in loc . chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans bro...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 39:1 . In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged Jerusalem. On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their lo...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. The downfall of Judah The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most t...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah 39:1 , Jeremiah 39:2 , and Jeremiah 39:4-24 ) h...

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jerusalem Taken

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• Jeremiah 39:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 34:28 ; 2 Kings 22:20 ; 2 Kings 25:7 ; Deuteronomy 28:34 ; Esther 8:6 ; Genesis 21:16 ; Genesis 44:34 ; Isaiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 21:7 ; Jeremiah 24:8-10 ; Jeremiah 34:19-21 ;...

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