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A Long and Grueling Siege
Commentators note that the siege lasted for a grueling year and a half. The immense suffering from famine and disease during this period is not detailed here but is vividly captured in the book of Lamentations, which scholars like Albert Barnes suggest was written by Jeremiah as an eyewitness account of the city's fall.
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 25:2
18th Century
Theologian
The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities—famine, pestilence, and intense suffering—are best understood from the Lamentatio…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 25:2
19th Century
Bishop
Until the eleventh year. —The siege lasted altogether one year, five months, and twenty-seven days (2 Kings 25:1 compa…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 25:2
17th Century
Pastor
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood,
overlaid with gold
For it w…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 25:1–7
17th Century
Minister
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…