2 Kings 25:8 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Kings 25:8

6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon ^aat Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.

7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^aput out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month, ^aon the seventh day of the month (which was ^bthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), ^cNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9 ^aHe burned the house of the Lord ^band the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, ^che burned with fire.

10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^abroke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

11 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive ^athe rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

12 But the captain of the guard ^aleft some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

13 ^aThe bronze ^bpillars that were in the house of the Lord, and ^cthe carts and ^dthe bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ^ecarried their bronze to Babylon.

14 They also took away ^athe pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

15 The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

16 The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, ^athe bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.

17 ^aThe height of one pillar was¹ eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.

18 ^aAnd the captain of the guard took ^bSeraiah the chief priest, ^cZephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

19 He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, ^afive men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

20 So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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on the seventh day of the month . . . came Nebuzar-adan—(compare Jeremiah 52:12). In attempting to reconcile these two passages, it must be supposed either that, though he had set out on the seventh, he did not arrive in Jerusalem till the tenth, or that he did not put his orders in execution till that day. His office as captain of the guard (Genesis 37:36; Genesis 39:1) called him to execute the awards of justice on criminals; and hence, although not engaged in the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 39:13), Nebuzar-adan was despatched to rase the city, to plunder the temple, to lay both in ruins, demolish the fortifications, and transport the inhabitants to Babylon. The most eminent of these were taken to the king at Riblah (II Kings 25:27) and executed, as instigators and abettors of the rebellion, or otherwise obnoxious to the Assyrian government. In their number were Seraiah, the high priest, grandfather of Ezra (Ezra 7:1), his sagan or deputy, a priest of the second order (Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 29:25, Jeremiah 29:29; Jeremiah 37:3).

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