Jeremías 52
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1 ERA Sedechîas de edad de veintiún años cuando comenzó á reinar, y reinó once años en Jerusalem. Su madre se llamaba Hamutal, hija de Jeremías, de Libna. 2 E hizo lo malo en los ojos de Jehová, conforme á todo lo que hizo Joacim. 3 Y á causa de la ira de Jehová contra Jerusalem y Judá, fué el llegar á echarlos de su presencia: y rebelóse Sedechîas contra el rey de Babilonia. 4 Aconteció por tanto á los nueve años de su reinado, en el mes décimo, á los diez días del mes, que vino Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, él y todo su ejército, contra Jerusalem, y contra ella asentaron campo, y de todas partes edificaron contra ella baluartes. 5 Y estuvo cercada la ciudad hasta el undécimo año del rey Sedechîas. 6 En el mes cuarto, á los nueve del mes, prevaleció el hambre en la ciudad, hasta no haber pan para el pueblo de la tierra. 7 Y fué entrada la ciudad, y todos los hombres de guerra huyeron, y saliéronse de la ciudad de noche por el camino del postigo de entre los dos muros, que había cerca del jardín del rey, y fuéronse por el camino del desierto, estando aún los Caldeos junto á la ciudad alrededor. 8 Y el ejército de los Caldeos siguió al rey, y alcanzaron á Sedechîas en los llanos de Jericó; y esparcióse de él todo su ejército. 9 Entonces prendieron al rey, é hiciéronle venir al rey de Babilonia, á Ribla en tierra de Hamath, donde pronunció contra él sentencia. 10 Y degolló el rey de Babilonia á los hijos de Sedechîas delante de sus ojos, y también degolló á todos los príncipes de Judá en Ribla. 11 A Sedechîas empero sacó los ojos, y le aprisionó con grillos, é hízolo el rey de Babilonia llevar á Babilonia; y púsolo en la casa de la cárcel hasta el día en que murió. 12 Y en el mes quinto, á los diez del mes, que era el año diecinueve del reinado de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, vino á Jerusalem Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, que solía estar delante del rey de Babilonia. 13 Y quemó la casa de Jehová, y la casa del rey, y todas las casas de Jerusalem; y abrasó con fuego todo grande edificio. 14 Y todo el ejército de los Caldeos, que venía con el capitán de la guardia, destruyó todos los muros de Jerusalem en derredor. 15 E hizo trasportar Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, los pobres del pueblo, y toda la otra gente vulgar que en la ciudad habían quedado, y los fugitivos que se habían huído al rey de Babilonia, y todo el resto de la multitud vulgar. 16 Mas de los pobres del país dejó Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, para viñadores y labradores. 17 Y los Caldeos quebraron las columnas de bronce que estaban en la casa de Jehová, y las basas, y el mar de bronce que estaba en la casa de Jehová, y llevaron todo el metal á Babilonia. 18 Lleváronse también los calderos, y los badiles, y los salterios, y las bacías, y los cazos, y todos los vasos de metal con que se servían. 19 Y las copas, é incensarios, y tazones, y ollas, y candeleros, y escudillas, y tazas: lo que de oro de oro, y lo que de plata de plata, se llevó el capitán de la guardia. 20 Las dos columnas, un mar, y doce bueyes de bronce que estaban debajo de las basas, que había hecho el rey Salomón en la casa de Jehová: no se podía pesar el metal de todos estos vasos. 21 Cuanto á las columnas, la altura de la columna era de dieciocho codos, y un hilo de doce codos la rodeaba: y su grueso era de cuatro dedos, y hueca. 22 Y el capitel de bronce que había sobre ella, era de altura de cinco codos, con una red y granadas en el capitel alrededor, todo de bronce; y lo mismo era lo de la segunda columna con sus granadas. 23 Había noventa y seis granadas en cada orden: todas ellas eran ciento sobre la red alrededor. 24 Tomó también el capitán de la guardia á Seraías principal sacerdote, y á Sophonías segundo sacerdote, y tres guardas del atrio. 25 Y de la ciudad tomó un eunuco que era capitán sobre los hombres de guerra, y siete hombres de los continuos del rey, que se hallaron en la ciudad; y al principal secretario de la milicia, que revistaba el pueblo de la tierra para la guerra; y sesenta hombres del vulgo del país, que se hallaron dentro de la ciudad. 26 Tomólos pues Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, y llevólos al rey de Babilonia á Ribla. 27 Y el rey de Babilonia los hirió, y los mató en Ribla en tierra de Hamath. Así fué Judá trasportado de su tierra. 28 Este es el pueblo que Nabucodonosor hizo trasportar: En el año séptimo, tres mil veintitrés Judíos: 29 En el año dieciocho hizo Nabucodonosor trasportar de Jerusalem ochocientas treinta y dos personas: 30 El año veintitrés de Nabucodonosor, trasportó Nabuzaradán capitán de la guardia, setecientas cuarenta y cinco personas de los Judíos: todas las personas fueron cuatro mil seiscientas. 31 Y acaeció que en el año treinta y siete de la cautividad de Joachîn rey de Judá, en el mes duodécimo, á los veinticinco del mes, Evil-merodach, rey de Babilonia, en el año primero de su reinado, alzó la cabeza de Joachîn rey de Judá y sacólo de la casa de la cárcel; 32 Y habló con él amigablemente, é hizo poner su silla sobre las sillas de los reyes que estaban con él en Babilonia. 33 Hízole mudar también los vestidos de su prisión, y comía pan delante de él siempre todos los días de su vida. 34 Y continuamente se le daba ración por el rey de Babilonia, cada cosa en su día por todos los de su vida, hasta el día de su muerte.
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Jeremías 52:3
Jr 52:1-34. Written by Some Other than Jeremiah (Probably Ezra) AS AN Historical Supplement to the Previous Prophecies
(See on Jr 51:64). Jeremiah, having already (thirty-ninth and fortieth chapters) given the history in the proper place, was not likely to repeat it here. Its canonical authority as inspired is shown by its being in the Septuagint version. It contains the capture and burning of Jerusalem, &c., Zedekiah's punishment, and the better treatment of Jehoiachin under Evil-merodach, down to his death. These last events were probably subsequent to Jeremiah's time.
3. through ... anger of ... Lord ... Zedekiah rebelled--His "anger" against Jerusalem, determining Him to "cast out" His people "from His presence" heretofore manifested there, led Him to permit Zedekiah to rebel (2Ki 23:26, 27; compare Ex 9:12; 10:1; Ro 9:18). That rebellion, being in violation of his oath "by God," was sure to bring down God's vengeance (2Ch 36:13; Eze 17:15, 16, 18).
Jeremías 52:4
4. forts--rather, towers of wood [Kimchi], for watching the movements of the besieged from the height and annoying them with missiles.
Jeremías 52:7
7. (See on Jr 39:4).
Jeremías 52:9
Jeremías 52:11
11. Eze 12:13: "I will bring him to Babylon ... yet shall he not see it."
prison--literally, "the house of visitations," or "punishments," that is, where there was penal work enforced on the prisoners, such as grinding. Hence the Septuagint renders it "the house of the mill." So Samson, after his eyes were put out, "ground" in the Philistine prison-house (Jud 16:21).
Jeremías 52:12
12. tenth day--But in 2Ki 25:8, it is said "the seventh day." Nebuzara-dan started from Riblah on the "seventh" day and arrived in Jerusalem on the "tenth" day. Seeming discrepancies, when cleared up, confirm the genuineness of Scripture; for they show there was no collusion between the writers; as in all God's works there is latent harmony under outward varieties.
Jeremías 52:13
13. all the houses ... and all the houses of the great--the "and" defines what houses especially are meant, namely, the houses of the great men.
Jeremías 52:15
15. poor of ... people--added to the account in 2Ki 25:11. "The poor of the people" are of the city, as distinguished from "the poor of the land," that is, of the country.
Jeremías 52:17
17. brake--that they might be more portable. Fulfilling the prophecy (Jr 27:19). See 1Ki 7:15, 23, 27, 50. Nothing is so particularly related here as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and preciousness heightens the bitterness of their loss and the evil of sin which caused it.
brass ... brazen--rather "copper ... of copper."
Jeremías 52:18
18. (Ex 27:3).
Jeremías 52:19
19. of gold in gold--implying that the articles were of solid gold and silver respectively, not of a different metal inside, or alloyed [Grotius]. Whole: not breaking them as was done to the "brass" (Jr 52:17).
Jeremías 52:20
20. bulls ... under the bases--But the bulls were not "under the bases," but under the sea (1Ki 7:25, 27, 38); the ten bases were not under the sea, but under the ten lavers. In English Version, "bases," therefore, must mean the lower parts of the sea under which the bulls were. Rather, translate, "the bulls were in the place of (that is, 'by way of'; so the Hebrew, 1Sa 14:9), bases," or supports to the sea [Buxtorf]. So the Septuagint. 2Ki 25:16 omits the "bulls," and has "and the bases"; so Grotius here reads "the bulls (which were) under (the sea) and the bases."
Jeremías 52:21
21. eighteen cubits--but in 2Ch 3:15, it is "thirty-five cubits." The discrepancy is thus removed. Each pillar was eighteen common cubits. The two together, deducting the base, were thirty-five, as stated in 2Ch 3:15 [Grotius]. Other ways (for example, by reference to the difference between the common and the sacred cubit) are proposed: though we are not able positively to decide now which is the true way, at least those proposed do show that the discrepancies are not irreconcilable.
Jeremías 52:22
22. five cubits--so 1Ki 7:16. But 2Ki 25:17 has "three cubits." There were two parts in the chapiter: the one lower and plain, of two cubits; the other, higher and curiously carved, of three cubits. The former is omitted in 2Ki 25:17, as belonging to the shaft of the pillar; the latter alone is there mentioned. Here the whole chapiter of five cubits is referred to.
Jeremías 52:23
23. on a side--literally, (on the side) towards the air or wind, that is, the outside of the capitals of the pillars conspicuous to the eye, opposed to the four remaining pomegranates which were not seen from the outside. The pomegranates here are ninety-six; but in 1Ki 7:20 they are two hundred on each chapiter, and four hundred on the two (2Ch 4:13). It seems there were two rows of them, one above the other, and in each row a hundred. They are here said to be ninety-six, but immediately following one hundred, and so in 1Ki 7:20. Four seem to have been unseen to one looking from one point; and the ninety-six are only those that could be seen [Vatablus]; or, the four omitted here are those separating the four sides, one pomegranate at each point of separation (or at the four corners) between the four sides [Grotius].
Jeremías 52:24
Jeremías 52:25
25. seven men--but in 2Ki 25:19 it is "five." Perhaps two were less illustrious persons and are therefore omitted.
principal scribe of the host--(Is 33:18). His office was to preside over the levy and enroll recruits. Rawlinson observes that the Assyrian records are free from the exaggerated expressions found in the Egyptian. A minute account was taken of the spoil. Two "scribes of the host" are seen in every bas-relief, writing down the various objects brought to them: the heads of the slain, the prisoners, cattle, sheep, &c.
Jeremías 52:28
28. seventh year--in 2Ki 24:12, 14, 16, it is said "the eighth year" of Nebuchadnezzar. No doubt it was in part about the end of the seventh year, in part about the beginning of the eighth. Also in 2Ki 24:1-20, ten thousand (Jr 52:14), and seven thousand men of might, and a thousand craftsmen (Jr 52:16), are said to have been carried away, But here three thousand twenty-three. Probably the latter three thousand twenty-three were of the tribe of Judah, the remaining seven thousand out of the ten thousand were of the other tribes, out of which many Israelites still had been left in the land. The thousand "craftsmen" were exclusive of the ten thousand, as appears, by comparing 2Ki 24:14 with Jr 52:16. Probably the three thousand twenty-three of Judah were first removed in the end of "the seventh year"; the seven thousand and a thousand craftsmen in the "eighth year." This was at the first captivity under Jehoiachin.
Jeremías 52:29
29. eighteenth year--when Jerusalem was taken. But in Jr 52:15, and 2Ki 25:8, "the nineteenth year." Probably it was at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth [Lyra].
eight hundred and thirty and two--The most illustrious persons are meant, who no doubt were carried away first, at the end of the eighteenth year.
Jeremías 52:30
30. Not recorded in Kings or Chronicles. Probably it took place during the commotions that followed the death of Gedaliah (Jr 41:18; 2Ki 25:26).
four thousand and six hundred--The exact sum-total of the numbers specified here, namely, three thousand twenty-three, eight hundred thirty-two, seven hundred forty-five, not including the general multitude and the women and children (Jr 52:15; Jr 39:9; 2Ki 25:11).
Jeremías 52:31
31. (2Ki 25:27-30).
five and twentieth day--but in 2Ki 25:27, it is "the twenty-seventh day." Probably on the twenty-fifth the decree for his elevation was given, and the preparations for it made by releasing him from prison; and on the twenty-seventh day it was carried into effect.
Evil-merodach--son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar [Lyra]; and the Hebrew writers say that during Nebuchadnezzar's exclusion from men among beasts, Evil-merodach administered the government. When Nebuchadnezzar at the end of seven years was restored, hearing of his son's misconduct and that he had exulted in his father's calamity, he threw him into prison, where the latter met Jeconiah and contracted a friendship with him, whence arose the favor which subsequently he showed him. God, in his elevation, rewarded his having surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar (compare Jr 38:17 with 2Ki 24:12).
Jeremías 52:32
32. set his throne above--a mark of respect.
the kings--The Hebrew text reads (the other) "kings." "The kings" is a Masoretic correction.
Jeremías 52:33
33. changed ... garments--gave him garments suitable to a king.
did ... eat bread before him--(2Sa 9:13).
Jeremías 52:34
34. every day a portion--rather, "its portion," (compare 1Ki 8:59, Margin).
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