itis generally thought chat what we have iu this Chapter was nor penned by the Prophet F:r:i2/, who it 15 nor probable weuld have io largely repeated what he had related before Chap. 39.and could not Hiftorically relate what happened afrer his time as (ome things did which are mentioned towards the end of the Chapter, from j/:r.31. rothe end. They therefore rather think it penned by fome or other of choſe in Babylon, and pur 1n here as a Preface to rae Book of L2ntations. What we havein the three firſt Ver- ſes 15 entirely raken our of 2 Kings 24. 18, 19, 20, See the Notes rhere.,
z Here the wicked aQings of Zedebiah, and particularly his Rebellion againſt che King of 225y/0y who had made him King, as 2 King 24. 17. and to whom he had given an Oath of Fealty, is alcribed ro rhe wrath of the Lord; God nor putting any ſuch wickedneſs into Ins heart,bur ſuffering him fo ro miſcarry, having a deſign ro ſend F4da\ intro Captivity. Princes are often by God ſuffered ro miſcarry, for the fins of their People, which ſhould oblige us when we think 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 made him leave our Rulers (© :5 miſcarry 1n order to our ruine and punithmenc,
4+ Þ Anditcametopaſls in the ninth yearof his reign 1n the tenth month, in the tenth day of the monti, tar Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came,
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he and all his army againſt Jernſalem, and pitched againlt 1t, and built forts againſt it round about.
5 So the city was belieged 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, ſo that there was no bread tor the people of the land.
7 Thea the city was broken up, andall the menof war fled, and went forth out of the city by night. by the way of the gate, between the two walls, which ws by tne Kings garden, (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about) and they went by the way of the plain.
9g 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.
10 And the king of Babylon flew the ſons of Zede- kiah betore his eyes, he tlew alſo the princes of Ju- dah in Riblah.
inthe ſame words, See the Annotations on that Chapter, Fere- 9) *
m2) alſo hath the ſubſtance ot it, Chap, 39. 1, 2, 2,4, 5; 6, 7, only neither of thoſe places have the Jaſt words, from whence we learn that Zed:biab died in Babylon a Priſoner,
12 © Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, (which was the nineteenth year of Nebu- chadrezzar king of Babylon) came Nebuzaradan
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£ See the Nores on 2 Kings 25, from Ver.8. to the 13. whereall this 15 relared, only with a ſmall difference as to the Day of the Month when N:buz4r-44a3 came to Jery{a/emand burnt the Fem- ple. Inche Kings it is ſaid he came the ſeventh Day, here ir is laid hecameon the tenth Day. See the ſolution of it in the Annota- t10ns on 2 Kings 25. probably he night come into Jeruſalem the ſeyenth Day, and not bnrn the Temple till the tenth; Much of ic alſo 13 related by Jer2mizh, Chap. 39. The Provoſt-Marſhall abour a Month after 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 left ſome of the poorer ſort of the People to dreſs the Vineyards, and Till rhe Grounds, which is 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 the houſe of the LORD, and the baſes, and the braſen ſea that was in the houſe of the LORD, the Chaldeans
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c The particular enumeration of the parrs and Litenfils of the Temple mentioned in this, and in the following Verſes, may be concetvcd to have been to juſtific the Prophecy of Jeremiah,Chp. 27. 15. where there is a particular mention made of the Fi{ars, che Baſes,and rhe Sea, that chey ſhould all with the reſidue of the Veſſels of the Temple be carricd to Baby/on. Of theſe Pillars we read r Kisngs 9.15. they were of Braſs eighteen Cubits high, they were in the Porch of the Temple, Yer, 21. of the Bees we read there alſo largely from Ver, 27. to Ver. 33. they alſo were all of Braſs; and of the Sea from Ver. 25, to Vey. 27. Theſe being all made of Braſs were for conventency of carriage broken by the Chaldeans.
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