John Gill Commentary 2 Kings 25
John Gill Commentary
2 Kings 25
John Gill Commentary
2 Kings 25
"And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about." — 2 Kings 25:1 (ASV)
Ver. 1-7. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign ,
2 Kings 25:2
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
"So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah." — 2 Kings 25:2 (ASV)
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood,
overlaid with gold
For it was ten cubits long, and as many broad; and being of such a stiffness and thickness as it was, required so many pillars to support it: these pillars may signify the deity of Christ, which is the support of his human nature, and in which it has its personal subsistence, and gives all its actions and sufferings virtue and efficacy; and being of "shittim wood", which is incorruptible, may denote his eternity, and being covered with gold, his glory:
their hooks shall be of gold ;
which were upon the tops of the pillars on which the vail was hung: and the pillars were
upon the four sockets of silver ;
which were properly the pedestals or feet of the pillars; and these sockets, into which the pillars were let and placed, and the hooks the vail hung by, may hint to the union of the two natures in Christ, who is God and man in one person, God manifest in the flesh; see (Song of Solomon 5:15) .
"On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land." — 2 Kings 25:3 (ASV)
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
"Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] 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 [the king] went by the way of the Arabah." — 2 Kings 25:4 (ASV)
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
"But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him." — 2 Kings 25:5 (ASV)
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
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