Exo 19:4, Deu 29:2, Jos 23:3, Jer 39:1-8, Zec 1:6 | TSK | STEP

the tenth.This was the month Tebeth, (Es 2:16,) which began with the first moon of January; and it was on the 10th of this month that Nebuchadnezzar invested the city.

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months.

2Ki 25:3

was.

5:10; 52:6,7; 2Ki 25:4; Eze 33:21; Mic 2:12,13; Zep 1:10

all the.

1:15; 21:4; 38:17

Nergalsharezer.

13; 2Ki 17:30

Sarsechim.These were the principal commanders; but Dr. Blayney thinks that, instead of six persons, we have in reality but three, as the name that follows each is the title of the office. Thus Nergal-Sharezer, who was Samgar-nebo, or keeper, i.e., priest of Nebo; Sarsechim, who was Rab-saris, or chief eunuch; and Nergal-sharezer, who was Rab-mag, or chief magi; as the words {mog} in Persian, {magoos} in Arabic, {magooshai} in Syriac, and [magos ,] in Greek, signify; and we learn from Justin and Curtius that the magi attended the king in war.

when

38:18-20; Le 26:17,36; De 28:25; 32:24-30; 2Ki 25:4-7

Isa 30:15,16; Eze 12:12; Am 2:14

betwixt.

52:7-11; 2Ch 32:5

Chaldeans'.

32:4,5; 38:18,23; 2Ch 33:11; La 1:3; 4:20

in the plains.

52:8; Jos 4:13; 5:10

Riblah.

52:9,26,27; 2Ki 23:33; 25:6

Hamath.