Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 52
Albert Barnes Commentary
Jeremiah 52
Albert Barnes Commentary
Jeremiah 52
"Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah." — Jeremiah 52:1 (ASV)
Jeremiah 52 is a historical appendix to the Book of Jeremiah, providing details about the capture of Babylon that are additional to those contained in Jeremiah 39.
The last words of the preceding chapter affirm that Jeremiah was not the author. The view adopted by most commentators is that this chapter is taken from the 2nd Book of Kings, although the person who added it here also had access to other valuable documents and made several modifications to it, the principal modification being the substitution of the account of those led captive by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 52:28–30) for the narrative given in 2 Kings 25:22–26 (see the notes there).
"For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon." — Jeremiah 52:3 (ASV)
It - that is, Zedekiah’s evil doing.
Presence, that Zedekiah - Or, punctuate as: “presence. And Zedekiah” etc.
"Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king`s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah." — Jeremiah 52:7 (ASV)
Broken up ... the plain - Or, “broken into ... the Arabah” (Deuteronomy 1:1).
"And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death." — Jeremiah 52:11 (ASV)
Put him in prison ... - Not found in 2 Kings, for in the contemporaneous history, only what befell Zedekiah at Riblah would be known. It was no doubt added by the same hand that inserted the account of the deportations to Babylon.
"Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:" — Jeremiah 52:12 (ASV)
Served - The word implies high office.
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