Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The captains of the armies - i. e., the officers of the troops who had fled from Jerusalem with Zedekiah II Kings 25:4, and had then dispersed and gone into hiding II Kings 25:5.
For Mizpah, see Joshua 18:26 note.
The Netophathite - Netophah, the city of Ephai (compare Jeremiah 40:8), appears to have been in the neighborhood of Bethlehem Nehemiah 7:26; Ezra 2:21-22. The name is perhaps continued in the modern Antubeh, about 2 12 miles S. S. E. of Jerusalem.
A Maachathite - Maachah lay in the stony country east of the upper Jordan, bordering upon Bashan Deuteronomy 3:14.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 25:23:
Judges 20:1
2 Kings 25:21
Jeremiah 52:1
Zephaniah 2:8
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