2 Kings 24:1-2

1 Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procures his own ruin.

5 Jehoiachin succeeds him.

7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon.

8 Jehoiachin's evil reign.

10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon.

17 Zedekiah is made king, and reigns ill, unto the utter destruction of Judah.

his days.

17:5; 2Ch 36:6-21; Jer 25:1,9; 46:2; Da 1:1

Nebuchadnezzar.This prince, so famous in the writings of the prophets, was the son of Nabopollasar king of Babylon.

the Lord.

6:23; 13:20,21; De 28:49,50; 2Ch 33:11; Job 1:17; Isa 7:17; 13:5

Jer 35:11; Eze 19:8

according.

20:17; 21:12-14; 23:27; Isa 6:11,12; Jer 25:9; 26:6,20; 32:28

Mic 3:12

his. Heb. the hand of his.

Jeremiah 25:1

1 Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,

8 foretells the seventy years' captivity;

12 and after that, the destruction of Babylon.

15 Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshews the destruction of all nations.

34 The howling of the shepherds.

A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.

36:1; 46:2; 2Ki 24:1,2; Da 1:1

the first.Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.

Jeremiah 35:1

1 By the obedience of the Rechabites,

12 Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.

18 God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.

A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. The word.This discourse was probably delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when the king of Babylon made war against him.

in the.

1:3; 22:13-19; 25:1; 26:1; 36:1,9,29; 46:2; 2Ki 23:35; 24:1-6

2Ch 36:5-8; Da 1:1
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