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8 © But the army of the Chaldeans purſued after the king. and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was ſcattered from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried him up un- to the king of Babylon to Riblah,in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgement upon him,
ro And the king of Babyion ſlew the ſons of Zede- kiah before his eyes, he ſlew allo all the princes of Ju- dah in Riblah.
it Then he | put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and
in the houſe of the LORD : Þ the braſs of all theſe veſ- ſels was without weight #« © ; Solomon made two Pillars, 1 Kings 7, 15. which
_ their braſs | Perſe 21. he. -
Verſe 25, ſtood upon twelve Oxen, and had ten Baſes, Yerſe 25. 27; the making of all theſe rook up a vaſt quantity of Braſs, as any one will eafi'fy judge, who I Kings 7, 27. readeth the dimenſions of theſe things. | BOS
21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pil- - | - lar was eighteen cubits, anda Þ fillet of twelve cubits , jx.4, did compals it, and the thickneſs thereof was four fin- , thred. gers: it was hollow &. + x >
b This agrzerh with 1 Kings 7. 15. where what is called here a; fillet, is called a thred, concerning'the height of the Pillars we read © tie ſame 2 Kings 25. 17, 2 Chron. 3. 15, a Boo
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of braſs, the ſecond pillar alſo, and the pomegranates
were like to theſe.
22 And there were ninety and fix pomegranates On a ſide, 4»d * ail the pomegranates upon the net-work, were an hundred round about 1, _ 22>
7 There.are ſome differences as to the meaſure of theſe Chapiters betwixt 2 Kings 25. 17. and this Text; here the heighr of them 1s made to be five Cubits, there it 1s {aid to be three Cubits, that which is ſaid to reſolve this difficulty is, That there were three parts in the Chapitcr, the Square, the Belly, and the Crown, and that this Text gives an account of the whole 3 but that Text 2 Kings 25+ '7-
gives an account only of the BU, and the Crown which were no The like difference there is berwixt this |
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31 9 And It care to paſs in the ſeven and thirtivch year ot the c:ptivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah s, in the twwelfth wmoneth, in the five and twentieth dy
of the monerh s, 1bar Evil-merodzch king of Babylon, in the fr#} year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoi- achin king of Judah, end broughs him forth out of priſon z.
s Jerojachin began his Reignat eighteen Years of Ago, 2 FKmrs 24. 8. and Reigned but three Moneths, but that ke yictded hin {cf to the King of Babylon Beſteging him, verſe 12. in the eighth Year of the King of Bady/or's Reign, He was a Priſcver in Babylen ( as ap- peareth by this Text J in which circur-ſtances he continued ( as appears from this Texr ) abour thirty Y:.ais; which was during the whole Reign of Nebuchadrezzar, ſometimes calicd Nebuct adnezzar fometimes Nebuchadinoſor. Evil-Merodach was Son to this Ne uchad- rez&ar, who, 1n the twelfth Moneth of that Year, the 25:h Day cf
Text, and 1 Kings 7. 19. and 2 Chron. 4. 13: about the number of | the Pomegranates, In the Bock of Kings It 1s ſaid the Pomegranares | were in number two hundred, Chron. 4. 13+ they are faid to have been four hundred, The meaning 15, There were an hundred in a
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of the Moncth ( faith this Text, but 2 K925 25. 27. it is the zwenty Jeventh ay, but that difference may eafi'y be reconciled, Fhe Pen- man of this part cf Holy Writ, might ccunt preciſely from the Day of his Fathers Death, and the Perman ofthe Bock of Kinrs Gm the r1me of th: Corcnarion of Ev:l- Merodach,or when he openly ſhewed
Some other difference allo there 5s a- of Pomegranates. on a fide, which areſaid to be bur ninety fix» which make on the two iid-s bur one hundred ninery twoy on the four ſides but three hundred eighty four. and comes up neither to the two hundred mentioned in the Book of Kings, nor v0 the. number of four hundred men- tion:d in the Book of Chroniclcs, Vide the Engliſh Annotations, where the learned Author hath obſerved that in the Hebrew, what we Tranſlace of a ſide, is word for word Wind-ward, that is, toward the four Winds, ſo as the Table was ſquare, and there were twenty four on each ſide which made ninety ſix in all, to which four being added, one at each corver, this made an hundred. But theſe are niceties, a ſatisfa&tion in which is of no gteat concernment to us. uoleſs to fatisfie ſuch as would make uſe of theſe little things to Queſtion the Authority of the Scriptures, becauſe of theſe ſeem- ing contradi&ions of how little concernment ſo ever thy be as toour Faith and Holineſs. —-
24 T And thecaptain of the guard took Seraiah the
Chief prieſt, and Zephaniah the ſecond prieſt, and the
thiee keepers of the | door .
m Ses the Notes on 2 Kings 25-18. where we have the ſame words. This Seraiah was not he mentioned Chap- 51. 59. but the Son of Azariah, 1 Chron. 6.i4. By the ſecond Pricſt, Interpreters underitand him that ſepylicd the place of the High Prieſt in caſe he were ſick,
each Pillar) four hundred.