Deu 28:36, 2Ki 24:12-16, 25:7, Jer 52:8-9, Lam 1:3, 4:15, 20, Eze 12:13 | TSK | STEP | bring thee. there shalt thou.The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.

Deuteronomy 28:36

bring thee.

2Ki 17:4-6; 24:12-15; 25:6,7,11; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6,17,20; Isa 39:7

Jer 22:11,12,24-27; 24:8-10; 39:5-7; 52:8-11; La 4:20; Eze 12:12,13

there shalt thou.The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.

64; 4:28; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32,33,39

2 Kings 24:12-16

Jehoiachin.

2Ch 36:10; Jer 24:1; 29:1,2; 38:17,18; Eze 17:12

officers. or, eunuchs. took him.

25:27; Jer 52:28,31

eigth year."Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year."

Jer 25:1; 52:28

he carried.

20:17; Isa 39:6; Jer 20:5

and cut.

25:13-15; Ezr 1:7-11; Jer 27:16-21; 28:3,4,6; Da 5:2,3

which Solomon.

1Ki 7:48-50; 2Ch 4:7-22

all.That is, all the chief men, the nobles, and the artificers. Among these were 7,000 mighty men, and 1,000 craftsmen and smiths.

Jerusalem.

2Ch 36:9,10; Jer 24:1-5; 52:28; Eze 1:1,2

craftsmen. So

1Sa 23:19-22

the poorest sort.

25:12; Jer 39:10; 40:7; 52:16; Eze 17:14

he carried.

8; 2Ch 36:10; Es 2:6; Jer 22:24-28

officers. or, eunuchs.

seven thousand.

Jer 29:2; 52:28

2 Kings 25:7

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 52:8-9

21:7; 32:4; 34:21; 37:18; 38:23; 39:5; Isa 30:16,17; La 4:19,20

Eze 12:12-14; 17:20,21; Am 2:14,15; 9:1-4

they took.

32:4,5; 2Ch 33:11; Eze 21:25-27

Riblah.

39:5; 2Ki 23:33; 25:6

Hamath.

Nu 13:21; Jos 13:5; 1Ki 8:65; 2Ch 8:3

Lamentations 1:3

gone.

2Ki 24:14,15; 25:11,21; 2Ch 36:20,21; Jer 39:9; 52:15,27-30

because of great servitude. Heb. for the greatness ofservitude. she.

2:9; Le 26:36-39; De 28:64-67; Jer 24:9; Eze 5:12

all.

4:18,19; Jer 16:16; 52:8; Am 9:1-4

Lamentations 4:15

Lamentations 4:20

breath.

2:9; Ge 2:7; 44:30; 2Sa 18:3

the anointed.

1Sa 12:3,5; 16:6; 24:6,10; 26:9,16; 2Sa 1:14,21; 19:21; Ps 89:20,21

was taken.

Jer 39:5; 52:8; Eze 12:13; 17:18; 19:4-8

Ezekiel 12:13

My net.This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his "eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon," and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died.

17:16,20; 19:8,9; 32:3; Job 19:6; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; Jer 50:24

La 1:13; 3:47; 4:19,20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35

and I.

2Ki 25:5-7; Jer 34:3; 39:7; 52:8-11