Concerning "The Capture of Jerusalem": Most of the details given in Jeremiah 39:1-14 appear again (as indicated by a marginal reference), and some …

In the ninth year of Zedekiah ... —The great crisis came at last, as Jeremiah had long ago predicted. A fuller narrative …

Jeremiah seems here indeed to undertake the office of a historian rather than that of a Prophet; but he seals his previous prophecies and, at the s…

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month

The month Tebet, which answers to part of our December, and …

Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it…

This section describes the ordering of the remnant of the people after they were taken captive. It is divided into three parts:

1. The ca…