Jeremiah 39:1-8
1 Jerusalem is taken.4 Zedekiah is made blind and sent to Babylon.8 The city laid in ruins,9 and the people captivated.11 Nebuchadrezzar's charge for the good usage of Jeremiah.15 God's promise to Ebed-melech. A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth.52:4-7; 2Ki 25:1,2-7; Eze 24:1,2; Zec 8:19the 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 25:3was.5:10; 52:6,7; 2Ki 25:4; Eze 33:21; Mic 2:12,13; Zep 1:10 all the.1:15; 21:4; 38:17Nergalsharezer.13; 2Ki 17:30Sarsechim.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. when38:18-20; Le 26:17,36; De 28:25; 32:24-30; 2Ki 25:4-7Isa 30:15,16; Eze 12:12; Am 2:14betwixt.52:7-11; 2Ch 32:5 Chaldeans'.32:4,5; 38:18,23; 2Ch 33:11; La 1:3; 4:20in the plains.52:8; Jos 4:13; 5:10Riblah.52:9,26,27; 2Ki 23:33; 25:6Hamath.Nu 13:21; Jos 13:5; Jud 3:3; 2Sa 8:9; 2Ki 17:24gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake with him judgments.4:12; Eze 17:15-21 slew the.52:10; 2Ki 25:7before.Ge 21:16; 44:34; De 28:34; 2Ki 22:20; 2Ch 34:28; Es 8:6; Isa 13:16slew all.21:7; 24:8-10; 34:19-21 he put.32:4,5; 52:11; 2Ki 25:7; Eze 12:13chains. Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters.Jud 16:21; Ps 107:10,11; 119:8 burned.7:20; 9:10-12; 17:27; 21:10; 34:2,22; 37:10; 38:18; 52:13; 2Ki 25:92Ch 36:19; Isa 5:9; La 1:10; 2:2,7; Am 2:5; Mic 3:12and brake.52:14; 2Ki 25:10; Ne 1:3Jeremiah 50:7
have devoured.17,33; 12:7-11; Ps 79:7; Isa 9:12; 56:9We offend.2:3; 40:2,3; Isa 47:6; Da 9:6,16; Zec 1:15; 11:5the habitation.31:23; Ps 90:1; 91:1the hope.14:8; Ps 22:4,5; 1Ti 1:1Jeremiah 50:17
a scattered.6; 23:1,2; Eze 34:5,6,12; Joe 3:2; Mt 9:36-38; Lu 15:4-6Joh 10:10-12; 1Pe 2:25the lions.2:15; 5:6; 49:19; 51:38first.2Ki 15:29; 17:6-23; 18:9-13; 2Ch 28:20; 32:1-23; 33:11; Isa 7:17-20Isa 8:7,8; 10:5-7; 36:1-37:38this.39:1-8; 51:34,35; 52:1; 2Ki 24:1-25:30; 2Ch 36:1-23; Isa 47:6Da 6:24Jeremiah 51:49
As Babylon, etc. or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain ofIsrael and with Babylon shall fall the slain of all the country. hath. 10,11,24,35; 50:11,17,18,29,33,34; Jud 1:7; Ps 137:8,9; Mt 7:2Jas 2:13; Re 18:5,6Lamentations 1:1
1 The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins.12 The attention and compassion of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case.18 The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated, with prayers against insulting foes. How doth.The LXX. have the following words as an introduction: "And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said." 2:1; 4:1; Isa 14:12; Jer 50:23; Zep 2:15; Re 18:16,17sit.2:10; Isa 3:26; 47:1-15; 50:5; 52:2,7; Jer 9:11; Eze 26:16full.Ps 122:4; Isa 22:2; Zec 8:4,5as a.Isa 47:8,9; 54:4; Re 18:7great.1Ki 4:21; 2Ch 9:26; Ezr 4:20how is.5:16; 2Ki 23:33,35; Ne 5:4; 9:37Lamentations 1:14-15
yoke.De 28:48; Pr 5:22; Isa 14:25; 47:6; Jer 27:8,12; 28:14delivered.Jer 25:9; 34:20,21; 37:17; 39:1-9; Eze 11:9; 21:31; 23:28; 25:4,7Ho 5:14 trodden.2Ki 9:33; 24:14-16; 25:4-7; Ps 119:118; Isa 5:5; 28:18Jer 50:26; *marg:Da 3:13; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Lu 21:24; Heb 10:29crush.3:34; De 28:33; Jud 10:8; *marg:Jer 51:34the virgin, etc. or, the winepress of the virgin, etc.Jer 14:17as in.Isa 63:3; Re 14:19,20; 19:15
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