4 Here the wicked aQings of Zedebiah, and particularly his ReHellion againſt che King of 226y/0z who had made him King, as 2 King 24. 17. and to whom he had given an Oath of Fealty, is aicribed ro the wrath of the Lord; God not putting any ſuch wickedneſs into Is heart,bur ſuftering him fo to miſcarry, having a deſign to ſend F4da! intro Captivity. Princes are often by God ſuttered ro miſcarry, for the fins of their People, which fhould oblige us when wethink we have cauſe ro complain of the Errors of our Ralers, ro conſider whether we have nor by ſome finful courſes provoked God, which hach mace him leave our Rulers (2 :5 miſcarry in order to our ruine and puniſhmenc,
+ Anditcame to paſs in the ninth yearof his reign 1n the tenth month, in the tenth day of the montn, 2: Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came,
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he and all his army againſt Jeruſalem, and pitched againlt it, and built forts again{t it round about.
5 Sothe city was beſieged unto the eleventh year of king, Zedckiah,
6 Andin the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was ſore in the city, fo that there was no bread tor the people of the land.
7 Thea the city was broken up, and all the men of
war fled, and went forth out of the ciry by mght.by /okk the way of the gate, between the two walls, whictt w.zs by the Kings garden, (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about) and they went by the way ot the plain. 9 Then they took the King, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the Jand of Hamath ; where he gave judgment upon him. to And the king of Babylon flew the ſons of Zede- kiah betore his eyes, he llew alſo the princes of Ju- dah in Riblah. | - Bob 11 Then he | put out the eyes of Zedektah, and , ,, ogg the king of Babylon bound hum in || chains, and carri- zj;y,ged ed him to Babylon, and put him in + priſon till the || Or;fete;r,, day of his death 6. ra b This Hiſtory is found, 2 King. 25. 1,2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8. much #” *9* 194: inthe ſame words, See the Annotations on that Chapter, Fere- 9 *** 2) alto hath the ſubſtance of 1t, Chap, 35. 1, 2, 2,4, 5, 6, 7, only} ard. neither of thoſe places have the laſt words, from whence we learn that Zed:biab died 1n Babylon a Priſoner, b wt 12 © Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of & thr! a. the month, (which was the nineteenth year of Nebu- | chadrezzar king of Babylon) came Nebuzaradan | | captain of the guard, which + ſerved the King of j or, <1: Babylon, into Jeruſalem. Marſhal. 13 And burnt the houſe of the LORD, and the ob hs king's houſe, and all the houſes of Jeruſalem, and all the execy- the houſes of the great mer burat he with fire. * ioners 07 14 Andall the army of the chaldeans, that were PS eo with the captain of the guard brake down all the and & walls of Jeruſalem, round about. Ver. 14. 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the onard rk. $== ;
carried away captive certain of the poor of the peo- flood befor? 20, ple, and the relidue of the people that remained
in the city, and thoſe that fell away, that fell to
=_ king of Babylon, and the reſt of the multi-
tude,
16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard
left cerraiz of the Poor of the Jand ſor vine-drelſers and tor husbandmen.
£ See the Nores on 2 Kings 25, from Ver.s. to the 13. whereall this 15 relared, only with a ſmall difference as to the Day of the Month when N:b:24r-44an came to Jeruſz/em and burnt the Fem- ple. Inche Kings it is ſaid he came the ſeventh Day, here it is laid hecame on the tenth Day, See the ſolution of it in the Annota- tions on 2 Kings 25. probably he night come into Jeruſalem rhe ſeyenth Day, and nor bnrn the Temple ill the tenth. Much of ic alſo 13 related by Jeremiah, Chap. 39, The Provoſt-Marſha!l about a Month afrer the raking of the City, returned with part of the Army, burar the Temple, the great Mens Houſes in the City, and many other Houſes, and carried away divers Priſoners, but lefr ſome of the poorer ſort of the People to dreſs the Vineyards, and Till the Grounds, which 1s a thing very uſual with Conque- rors for their owu advantage, that their Conqueits way yield them ſome Reyenue,
17 Allo the * pillars of braſs that were in they Chap: houſe of the LORD, and the baſes, and the braſen ,,,;. ſea that was in the houſe of the LORD, the Chaldeans
brake and carried away all the braſs of them to Baby- lon c.
c The particular enumeration of the parts and Lltenfils of the Temple mentioned in this, and tn the following Verſes, may be concetved to have been to juſtific the Prophecy of Jeremian,Chp, 27. 15. where there is a particular mention made of the Pi{ ar, the Baſes,and the Sea, that chey ſhould all with the reſidue of the Veijels of the Temple be carricd to Baby/on, Of theſe Pillars we read r Kings 9.15, they were of Braſs cighteen Cubits high, they were in the Porch of che Temple, er, 21. of the Bffes we read 3 there alſo largely from Ver, 27, to Ver. 38. they alſo were all of Et Braſs; and of the $ea from Ver. 25, ro Vey. 27. Theſe being all 2 made of Braſs were- for convenency of carriage broken by che Chaldeans.
F T Heb. $breſhouls
; Ly 7G 18 The * The Caldrons alfo 4, and the ji ſhovels e, - a. and the {nuffers /,and the |, bowls g and the ſpoons .*. |; Or. / Bede and all the veſſels of bra wherewich they mini- ©" eatain {tred took they away. abs the M1, Cr.
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a Theſe were calted Pots, 2 Kings 25. 14. & Which wereto remove the aſhes from the Altar, f Some think that his word 1n this place were berrer tranſlated Tongs, becauſe he is ſpeaking of Inſtruments of Braſs, and that thote Urenſils are nor here under- tiood with which they ſnutted the Lamps, becauſe they were of Gold, g Or Bſozs; 1t is uncertain which'1s here intended, there being inthe Tem le, both Bowls to drinkin, andalſo Baſors to retcive the Blood of the Sacrifices, .*. The word 1s ſuch as may {igmfie Ladels, or Cups, or Diſhes.
1} Or, Cf 10 And the baſons, and the, fire-pans, and the
wy bowls, and the caldrons, and the candleiticks, anp the ſpoons, and the cups: rhar which was of gold 2 gold, and har which ws of filver z2 liver, rook the captain of the guard away h.
Some of theſe Urentils were only of Braſs; others, were ſome cf chem Braſs, ſome of Silver, ſome of Gold, the Captain of the guard carried away all,both choſe of Silver, and thoſe of Gold, and thoſe of Brals,