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The End of Temple Worship
Commentators like John Gill explain that this list is not just random loot. Each item—pots for boiling sacrifices, shovels for altar ashes, basins for blood—had a specific, sacred function. Their removal signified the complete end of the temple worship system, a spiritual catastrophe for the people.
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Jeremiah
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 52:18–20
19th Century
Bishop
The caldrons also, and the shovels ... — The list in 2 Kings 25:14–16 omits the basins, the caldrons, the candle…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 52:1–34
16th Century
Theologian
Laus Deo
Commentary on Lamentations
Calvin's Preface
LECTURES OF JOHN CALVIN
ON
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 52:18
17th Century
Pastor
The cauldrons also Or "pots", as it is rendered, (2 Kings 25:14); which were made of bright brass, ([Referenc…
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Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 52:12–23
17th Century
Minister
The Chaldean army made woeful havoc. But nothing is related here as particularly as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembranc…