2Ki 25:1-7, Jer 52:4-7, Eze 24:1-2, Zec 8:19 | TSK | STEP | Jerusalem is besieged. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out. Nebuzar-adan defaces the city, carries the remnant, except a few poor labourers, into captivity; and spoils and carries away the treasures. The nobles are slain at Riblah. Gedaliah, who was over them that remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt. Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court. A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. in the ninth.This according to the computation of Archbishop Usher, was on Thursday, January 30th, A.M. 3414, which was a sabbatical year; wherein they proclaimed liberty to their servants, according to the law, but soon enthralled them again. (See Jer 34:8-10.) Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadrezzar. pitched.

2 Kings 25:1-7

1 Jerusalem is besieged.

4 Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out.

8 Nebuzar-adan defaces the city, carries the remnant, except a few poor labourers, into captivity;

13 and spoils and carries away the treasures.

18 The nobles are slain at Riblah.

22 Gedaliah, who was over them that remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt.

27 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court.

A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. in the ninth.This according to the computation of Archbishop Usher, was on Thursday, January 30th, A.M. 3414, which was a sabbatical year; wherein they proclaimed liberty to their servants, according to the law, but soon enthralled them again. (See Jer 34:8-10.)

2Ch 36:17-21; Jer 34:2,3-6; 39:1-10; 52:4,5-11; Eze 24:1,2-14

Nebuchadnezzar.

24:1,10; 1Ch 6:15; Jer 27:8; 32:28; 43:10; 51:34; Eze 26:7

Nebuchadrezzar.

Da 4:1-18

pitched.

Isa 29:3; Jer 32:24; Eze 4:1-8; 21:22-24; Lu 19:43,44

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the ninth day.

Jer 39:2; 52:6; Zec 8:19

the famine.

Le 26:26; De 28:52,53; La 4:4-10; Eze 4:9-17; 5:10,12; 7:15; 14:21

there was no.

Jer 37:21; 38:2

the city.This being the ninth day of the fourth month, corresponded to Wednesday, July 27.

Jer 5:10; 39:2,3; 52:6,7-11; Eze 33:21

fled.

Le 26:17,36; De 28:25; 32:24,25,30; Jer 39:4-7

and the king.

5; Eze 12:12

and overtook.

Isa 30:16; Jer 24:8; 39:5; 52:8; Am 2:14-16

they took.

2Ch 33:11; Jer 21:7; 34:21,22; 38:23; La 4:19,20; Eze 17:20,21

Eze 21:25-27

Riblah.

23:33; Jer 52:9

gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake judgment with him.

they slew.

Ge 21:16; 44:34; De 28:34; Jer 22:30; 39:6,7; 52:10,11

and put out. Heb. and made blind.Thus were fulfilled the apparently contradictory prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel--that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, but Babylon he should not see, though he should die there.

Jer 32:4,5; 34:3; Eze 12:13-16

bound him.

Jud 16:21; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6; Ps 107:10,11; 149:8; Eze 7:27; 17:16-20

Jeremiah 52:4-7

A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year.

39:1; 2Ki 25:1-27; Eze 24:1,2

in the tenth month.

Zec 8:19

pitched.

7; 6:3-6; 32:24; Le 26:25; De 28:52-57; Isa 29:3; 42:24,25

Eze 4:1-7; 21:22; Lu 19:43; 21:20

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.

39:2; 2Ki 25:3; Zec 8:19

the famine.

15:2; 19:9; 21:9; 25:10; 38:9; Le 26:26; De 28:52,53; 32:24; Isa 3:1

La 4:4-6; 5:10; Eze 4:9-17; 5:10-12; 7:15; 14:21

the city.

34:2,3; 2Ki 25:4

all the men.

39:4-7; 49:26; 51:32; Le 26:17,36; De 28:25; 32:30; Jos 7:8-12

Ezekiel 24:1-2

1 Under the parable of a boiling pot,

6 is shewn the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem.

15 By the sign of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife,

19 is shewn the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow.

A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year.This was the ninth year of Zedekiah, about Thursday, January 30, A.M. 3414, the very day in which Nebuchadnezzar began the siege of Jerusalem.

1:2; 8:1; 20:1; 26:1; 29:1,17; 31:1; 32:1,17; 33:21; 40:1

2Ki 24:12

write.

Isa 8:1; 30:8,9; Hab 2:2,3

of this.

2Ki 25:1; Jer 39:1; 52:4