Before his eyes - This particular form of cruelty seems to have especially shocked the Jews, whose customs were le barbaric than those of mo…

And they slew ... — The verbs are all singular in Jeremiah 39:6 and Jeremiah 52:10-11, so the acts in question are attributed dire…

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)

Jerusalem was so fortified that it could not be taken until famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jere…