29 The two pillars, one ſea, and twelve brazen bulls, that were under the baſes which king Solomon 7 BY, had made in the houſe of the LORD-= Þ the braſs of $6437 245 ij] theſe veilels was without weight 7 i S0/omon made two Pillars, 1 Kings 7- 15. which Ver, 21. he called Fachin and Boaz, /'er. 23.4 motten Se4, ten Cubirs broad, this Fr, 25. ſtood upon twelve Oxen, and had ten Baſes, /*r, 2 5, 27. the making of all thee rook up a vaſt quantity of Braſs, as any one will eaſily judge, who 1 Kings 7.27- readerh the dimenſtons of theſe things,
21 And conrernins the pillars , the height of one pillar was eighteen cubirs, and a - filletof twelve cu- bits did compals ir, and the thickneſs thereof was four fingers : it was hollow &.
This agreeth with 1 Kings 7. 15. where what is called herea 5/1rt. is called a thread, concerning the height of the Pillars we read the ſame 2 Kings 23.17. 2 Chron. 3. 15.
22 And achapiter of braſs was upon it, and the height of one chapiter was five cubits with net-work, and pomegranates upon thechapiters round about, ſall of braſs, the ſecond pillar allo and the pomegranates were like to theſe.
23 And there were ninety and fix pomegranates *<.. ©Ona fide, and*all the pomegranates upon the net-
t King, 7, WOrk, were an hundred round about 2.
20 '* 1 Thereare ſome differences as to the meaſure of theſeChapiters betwixt 2 Kings 28. 17. and this Text here the height of them 1s made to be five Cubits, there is ſaid to be threefir Cubits, thar which is ſaid co reſolve this difficulty is, That there were three parts in the Chapiter,the Square, the Belly,and the Crown, and that this Texrgives an account of the whole z but that the Text 2K3ngs 25. 17. gives an account only of the Be#y and the Crows which were no more than three Cubits. The likke difference there 15 be- twixt this Tex, and r Kings 7. 19. and 2 Chron. 4. 13- about the number of the Pomsgeranates. In the Book of Kings it 15s ſaid the Pomegranates were in number two hundred, 2 Chron 4. 13- they arc laid to have been four hundred, The meaning 15, There were an hundred in a rovw., in the two rows two hundred, in the four rows (two upon each Pillar) four hundred. Some other difference alſo there is about the particular number of Pomegranates on 4 ſide, which are ſaid robe but ninety fix, which make on the two fides but one handred and ninety two, on the four 1ides bur three hundred eighty four, and comes up neither ro the two hun- dred mentioned 1n the Book of Kings, nor to the number of four hundred mentioned in the Book of Chroxicles. Vide the Engliſh Amotations, where the learned Author hath obferved that in che Hebrew what we tranſlate of a fie, 15 word for word //ind-ward, that is, towards the four Winds, ſoas the Table was ſquare, and there were twenty four on each ſide which made ninety fix 10 all, to which four being added, one at each corner, this made an hun- dred. But theſe are niceries, a ſatisfa&ion in which 1s of no great co icernment to us, unleſs to ſatisfie ſuch as would make uſe of theſe lirtle things to queſtion the authority of rhe Scriptures, be- cauſe of theſe ſeeming contradictions of how little concernment fo. ever they be as to their Faith and Holineſs,
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24 4 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief prieſt, and Zephaniah the ſecond prieſt,
"+ Heb. andthe three keepers of the - door m:. "ghreſhould, See the Notes on 2 Kings 25. 18. where we have the ſame 2IF words, This Seraia» was not he mentioned Chzp. gr. 59. but the Son of Azaviah, 1 Chron, 6, 14. By the ſtcond Prieſt, Intepre- ters underiland "im that ſupplied rhe place of the High Prieſt in caſe he were fick, ec. he that was ſent by Zedthiab to the Pro- pher, Chap. 21. 1, and whom Shemah choſe by his Letters Chap. L 29. 25. for not ſetting Jeremich in the Stocks. Ir is probable 0 there were more Keepers of the Door,. but the Captain of rhe A Heb, Guard took only three of the Principal.
wy 25 He took alſo of the city, an eunuch, which or. 3:8 had the chatge of the men of war, and ſeven men of jerib: of the £NEmM That + were near the kings perſon which were
exptzir of found in the city, and the || principal ſcribe of the
Poe WE: Fob, ny Eh) oo
{c . - a) 47 oP p ſ on of the people of tic land, cat were found 11 the mid{t of the clty x.
n See 2 I(inzs 25. 19. only there is mention hut of fue my. here there 1s mention of leycn, but probably two of tem wer? of leſs nore, ; | 22
26 So Nebuzar-adan the caj tain of the guard took them,aud brought them to the king of Babylon co Riblah. |
27 And the king of Babylon ſnote them, and var them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hur t- 'Thus Judah was carried away captive out .of his own land ».
0 See 2 Kings 25. 29, 21,
_ 2d This zs the people whom Nebuchadrezzar car- ried away captive ; in the ſeventh year, three thou- land Jev's and three and twenty p. þ Thatis1n the time of Jehotachin, 2 Kings 24. 12, 13, 14. here It 15 ſaid to be inthe ſeventh year, there in the eighth year,ie might? be in part of both. Bur there is a difference in the number of th: captives which are here ſaid to be 3023, and 2 Kings 24. 14,16. ſeven thouſand, or eight, Iris thought by ſome that the numer here mentioued were ſuch as properly helonged to ]:421, and che number mentioned, 2 {ings 24, were the number of che Caprives of Jua2/ and Benj2min, See the Eng'th Annotat.
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive trom Jeruſalem eight huudred thirty and two Þ perſons q,
q Thar was the Year when the City was broken up.
39 In the three and twenticth year of Nebucihad- rezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard car- ricd away captive of the Jews ſeven hundred, forty and five perſons : all the perſons were four thouſand {ix hundred 7.
r Of this we read nothing in Holy Wrir, ſome judge i* ro have been upon occaſion of Ihmnae?!'s killing Ged2/i2h , bur rhis
was four Years after the raking of the City, and we are not certain what art this time brought again the Ch2{d; 7 Forces.
31 Þ Anditcameto pals ia the ſeven and thirti- eth year of the captivity of Jehotachin king of [1- dah s, inthe twelfth month, in the five and twenti- eth day of the month 5, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the f:z/7 year of his Reign, lifted up the head of Jehotachun king of Judah, and brovght him forth out of priſon 7.