[801] Jer. xxvi. 22.
[802] 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9.
[803] Jer. xx. 2. There seem to have been special "stocks" and "collars" in the Temple, reserved, by order of the priest Jehoiada, for those whom the priests regarded as unruly prophets (Jer. xxix. 26).
[804] Jer. xxii. 24-30. The captivity of the queen-mother struck men's imaginations (Jer. xxix. 2).
[805] _Middoth_, ii. 6, quoted by Cheyne, p. 163; Jos., _B. J._, VI. ii. 1. Comp. Ezek. i. 2.
[806] Ezek. xix. 6-9. The special allusions are no longer certain.
[807] 2 Kings xx. 17. The expression "_he cut to pieces_ all the vessels of gold which Solomon had made" is hardly consistent with Ezra i. 7-11, unless we understand the word in a loose sense.
[808] He says that he nobly gave himself up to save the city (_Antt._, X. vii. 1). His captivity was made an era from which to date Ezek. i. 2, viii. 1, xxiv. 1, xxvi. 1, etc. Comp. Susannah 1-4.
[809] Jer. xxii. 30, '_arîrî_. His "son" Assir (1 Chron. iii. 17) may have been made an eunuch (Isa. xxxix. 7).
[810] Luke iii. 27, 31; Matt. i. 12.
[811] Baruch i. 3, 4.
[812] The favourable notice of Nebuchadrezzar in _Taanith_ (quoted above) is not found in _Berachoth_, f. 57, 2, where he is called "the wicked." There are many wild legends about him. In _Nedarim_ (f. 65, 2), R. Yitzchak says: "May melted gold be poured into the mouth of the wicked Nebuchadrezzar! Had not an angel struck him on the mouth, he would have outshone all David's songs and praises." With reference to Isa. xxii. 1, 2, the Rabbis say that Jeconiah went to the Temple roof, and flung up the keys into the air, when Nebuchadrezzar required them: "a hand took them, and they were seen no more" (_Shekalim_, vi. 5). In _Nedarim_ (f. 65, 2) we are told that Zedekiah's rebellion consisted in divulging, contrary to his oath, that he had seen Nebuchadrezzar eating a live hare (Hershon, _Treasures of the Talmud_).