Jeremias 52

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1 Zedequias tinha vinte e um anos de idade quando começou a reinar. Ele reinou onze anos em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Hamutal, filha de Jeremias, de Libna. 2 Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos do SENHOR, de acordo com tudo o que Jeoaquim havia feito. 3 Pois, por causa da ira do SENHOR, isso aconteceu em Jerusalém e em Judá, até que ele os expulsou da sua presença. Zedequias rebelou-se contra o rei da Babilônia. 4 No nono ano do seu reinado, no décimo mês, no décimo dia do mês, Nabucodonosor, rei da Babilônia, marchou contra Jerusalém com todo o seu exército. Eles acamparam contra ela e construíram rampas de cerco ao seu redor. 5 Assim, a cidade ficou sitiada até o décimo primeiro ano do rei Zedequias. 6 No quarto mês, no nono dia do mês, a fome era tão severa na cidade que não havia pão para o povo da terra. 7 Então, uma brecha foi feita na cidade, e todos os homens de guerra fugiram, saindo da cidade de noite pelo caminho da porta entre os dois muros, que ficava perto do jardim do rei. Ora, os caldeus cercavam a cidade por todos os lados. Os homens de guerra foram em direção à Arabá, 8 mas o exército dos caldeus perseguiu o rei e alcançou Zedequias nas planícies de Jericó; e todo o seu exército se dispersou, abandonando-o. 9 Então eles prenderam o rei e o levaram ao rei da Babilônia, em Ribla, na terra de Hamate; e ele pronunciou a sentença contra ele. 10 O rei da Babilônia matou os filhos de Zedequias diante dos seus olhos. Ele também matou todos os príncipes de Judá em Ribla. 11 Ele furou os olhos de Zedequias; e o rei da Babilônia o prendeu com grilhões, o levou para a Babilônia e o colocou na prisão até o dia da sua morte. 12 Ora, no quinto mês, no décimo dia do mês, que era o décimo nono ano do rei Nabucodonosor, rei da Babilônia, Nebuzaradã, o capitão da guarda, que servia diante do rei da Babilônia, entrou em Jerusalém. 13 Ele incendiou a casa do SENHOR e a casa do rei; e todas as casas de Jerusalém, até mesmo todas as casas grandes, ele queimou com fogo. 14 Todo o exército dos caldeus, que estava com o capitão da guarda, derrubou todos os muros ao redor de Jerusalém. 15 Então Nebuzaradã, o capitão da guarda, levou cativos alguns dos mais pobres do povo, e o restante do povo que havia sido deixado na cidade, e os desertores que haviam se rendido ao rei da Babilônia, e o restante da multidão. 16 Mas Nebuzaradã, o capitão da guarda, deixou alguns dos mais pobres da terra para serem vinhateiros e lavradores. 17 Os caldeus quebraram em pedaços as colunas de bronze que estavam na casa do SENHOR, e os suportes, e o mar de bronze que estavam na casa do SENHOR, e levaram todo o bronze deles para a Babilônia. 18 Eles também levaram as panelas, as pás, os apagadores, as bacias, as colheres e todos os utensílios de bronze com os quais eles ministravam. 19 O capitão da guarda levou os copos, os incensários, as bacias, as panelas, os candelabros, as colheres e as tigelas; o que era de ouro, como ouro, e o que era de prata, como prata. 20 Eles levaram as duas colunas, o único mar e os doze touros de bronze que estavam debaixo dos suportes, que o rei Salomão havia feito para a casa do SENHOR. O peso do bronze de todos esses utensílios era incalculável. 21 Quanto às colunas, a altura de uma coluna era de dezoito côvados; e um fio de doze côvados a cercava; e a sua espessura era de quatro dedos. Ela era oca. 22 Havia sobre ela um capitel de bronze; e a altura de um capitel era de cinco côvados, com uma rede e romãs ao redor do capitel, tudo de bronze. A segunda coluna também era igual, com romãs. 23 Havia noventa e seis romãs nos lados; todas as romãs eram cem sobre a rede ao redor. 24 O capitão da guarda prendeu Seraías, o sacerdote principal, e Sofonias, o segundo sacerdote, e os três guardas da porta; 25 e da cidade ele levou um oficial que comandava os homens de guerra; e sete homens daqueles que viam a face do rei, que foram encontrados na cidade; e o escriba do capitão do exército, que alistava o povo da terra; e sessenta homens do povo da terra, que foram encontrados no meio da cidade. 26 Nebuzaradã, o capitão da guarda, os prendeu e os levou ao rei da Babilônia, em Ribla. 27 O rei da Babilônia os feriu e os matou em Ribla, na terra de Hamate. Assim Judá foi levado cativo da sua terra. 28 Este é o número das pessoas que Nabucodonosor levou cativas: no sétimo ano, três mil e vinte e três judeus; 29 no décimo oitavo ano de Nabucodonosor, ele levou cativas de Jerusalém oitocentas e trinta e duas pessoas; 30 no vigésimo terceiro ano de Nabucodonosor, Nebuzaradã, o capitão da guarda, levou cativas setecentas e quarenta e cinco pessoas dos judeus. Todas as pessoas totalizaram quatro mil e seiscentas. 31 No trigésimo sétimo ano do cativeiro de Joaquim, rei de Judá, no décimo segundo mês, no vigésimo quinto dia do mês, Evil-Merodaque, rei da Babilônia, no primeiro ano do seu reinado, levantou a cabeça de Joaquim, rei de Judá, e o libertou da prisão. 32 Ele falou amavelmente com ele e colocou o seu trono acima do trono dos reis que estavam com ele na Babilônia, 33 e mudou as suas roupas de prisão. Joaquim comeu pão diante dele continuamente todos os dias da sua vida. 34 Quanto à sua provisão, uma provisão contínua lhe foi dada pelo rei da Babilônia, uma porção a cada dia, até o dia da sua morte, todos os dias da sua vida.

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Jeremias 52:1

Introduction

This chapter was added after Jeremiah's time probably by Ezra, after the return from the captivity, of which it gives a short account, nearly the same as in 2Kgs 24:18-20, and 2Kgs 24:18-20. It is very properly subjoined to the preceding prophecies, in order to show how exactly they were fulfilled. It likewise forms a proper introduction to the following Lamentations, as it gives an account of the mournful events which gave rise to them. Zedekiah's evil reign and rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 52:1-3. Jerusalem is taken by the Chaldeans after a siege of eighteen months, Jer 52:4-7. Zedekiah pursued and taken in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army dispersed, Jer 52:8, Jer 52:9. The king's sons and all the princes of Judah slain in Riblah, Jer 52:10. Zedekiah has his eyes put out by order of the Chaldean monarch; and is afterward bound in chains, carried to Babylon, and imprisoned for life, Jer 52:11. Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, burns and spoils the city and temple, Jer 52:12-19. The two pillars of the temple, with their dimensions and ornaments, Jer 52:20-23. The officers of the temple, and several others, carried away captives into Babylon, and then slain by order of Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 52:24-27. The number of Jews that Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year of his reign, Jer 52:28; in his eighteenth year, Jer 52:29; and in his twenty-third year, Jer 52:30. Evil-merodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, in the year of his accession to the throne of Babylon, (which was in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity, and the one hundred and ninety-first from the building of Rome, according to the computation of Varro), orders Jehoiachin to be taken out of prison, and treats him kindly for the remainder of his life, Jer 52:31-34.

Verse 1

Zedekiah was one and twenty years old - See 2Kgs 24:18.

Jeremias 52:2

Verse 2

And he did - evil - This and the following verse are the same as 2Kgs 24:19.

Jeremias 52:3

Verse 3

Through the anger of the Lord - Here is a king given to a people in God's anger, and taken away in his displeasure.

Jeremias 52:4

Verse 4

Ninth year - tenth month - Answering nearly to our January.

Jeremias 52:5

Verse 5

So the city was besieged - It held out one year and six months.

Jeremias 52:6-7

Verse 6

And in the fourth month - See the notes on Jer 39:1, etc. The fourth month answers nearly to our July.

Jeremias 52:8

Verse 8

The army of the Chaldeans pursued - See on 2Kgs 25:5 (note).

Jeremias 52:9-10

Verse 9

King of Babylon to Riblah - See the note on Jer 39:5.

Jeremias 52:11

Verse 11

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah - See on Jer 39:7 (note).

Jeremias 52:12

Verse 12

Now in the fifth month - Answering nearly to our August.

Jeremias 52:13-14

Verse 13

And burned the house of the Lord - Thus perished this magnificent structure, after it had stood four hundred and twenty-four years three months and eight days. It was built A.M. 2992, and destroyed A.M. 3416.

Jeremias 52:15

Verse 15

Those that fell away - The deserters to the Chaldeans during the siege.

Jeremias 52:16

Verse 16

The poor of the land - See on Jer 39:1 (note).

Jeremias 52:17

Verse 17

Also the pillars - See on Jer 27:19 (note).

Jeremias 52:24

Verse 24

The second priest - See the note on 2Kgs 25:18.

The three keepers - The priests who stood at the door to receive the offerings of the people, see 2Kgs 20:9, and 2Kgs 23:4.

Jeremias 52:25-27

Verse 25

Seven men - that were near the king's person - These were privy counsellors.

Jeremias 52:28-30

Verse 28

On these verses Dr. Blayney has some sensible remarks; I will extract the substance. These verses are not inserted in 2 Kings 25. Are we to conclude from these verses that the whole number of the Jews which Nebuchadnezzar, in all his expeditions, carried away, was no more than four thousand six hundred? This cannot be true; for he carried away more than twice that number at one time and this is expressly said to have been in the eighth year of his reign, 2Kgs 24:12-16. Before that time he had carried off a number of captives from Jerusalem, in the first year of his reign, among whom were Daniel and his companions, Dan 1:3-6. These are confessedly not noticed here. And as the taking and burning of Jerusalem is in this very chapter said to have been in the fourth and fifth months of the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, those who were carried into captivity at the date of those events cannot possibly be the same with those that are said to be carried away either in the eighteenth or twenty-third year of that prince. Nor, indeed, is it credible that the number carried away at the time that the city was taken, and the whole country reduced, could be so few as eight hundred and thirty-two, (see Jer 52:29); supposing a mistake in the date of the year, which some are willing to do without sufficient grounds.

Here then we have three deportations, and those the most considerable ones, in the first, in the eighth, and nineteenth years of Nebuchadnezzar, sufficiently distinguished from those in the seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-third years. So that it seems most reasonable to conclude with Abp. Usher, in Chronologia Sacra, that by the latter three the historian meant to point out deportations of a minor kind, not elsewhere noticed in direct terms in Scripture.

The first of these, said to have been in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, was one of those that had been picked up in several parts of Judah by the band of Chaldeans, Syrians, and others, whom the king of Babylon sent against the land previously to his own coming, 2Kgs 24:2.

That in the eighteenth year corresponds with the time when the Chaldean army broke off the siege before Jerusalem, and marched to meet the Egyptian army, at which time they might think it proper to send off the prisoners that were in camp, under a guard to Babylon.

And the last, in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, was when that monarch, being engaged in the siege of Tyre, sent off Nebuzaradan against the Moabites, Ammonites, and other neighboring nations, who at the same time carried away the gleanings of Jews that remained in their own land, amounting in all to no more than seven hundred and forty-five.

Josephus speaks of this expedition against the Moabites and Ammonites, which he places in the twenty-third year or Nebuchadnezzar; but mentions nothing done in the land of Israel at that time. Only he says that after the conquest of those nations, Nebuchadnezzar carried his victorious arms against Egypt, which he in some measure reduced, and carried the Jews whom he found there captives to Babylon. But the Egyptian expedition was not till the twenty-seventh year of Jehoiachin's captivity, i.e., the thirty-fifth of Nebuchadnezzar, as may be collected from Eze 29:17; so that those who were carried away in the twenty-third year were not from Egypt, but were, as before observed, the few Jews that remained in the land of Judah.

Jeremias 52:31

Verse 31

In the twelfth month - Answering nearly to our twenty-fifth of April, A.M. 3442.

Lifted up the head of Jehoiachin - This phrase is taken from Gen 40:13. It is founded on the observation that those who are in sorrow hold down their heads, and when they are comforted, or the cause of their sorrow removed, they lift up their heads. The Hebrew phrase, lift up the head, signifies to comfort, cheer, make happy.

Jeremias 52:32

Verse 32

Spake kindly - Conversed freely with him.

Set his throne - Gave him a more respectable seat than any of the captive princes, or better than even his own princes had, probably near his person.

Jeremias 52:33

Verse 33

And changed his prison garments - That is, Jehoiachin changed his own garments, that he might be suited in that respect to the state of his elevation. Kings also, in token of favor, gave caftans or robes to those whom they wish to honor.

And he did continually eat bread before him - Was a constant guest at the king's table.

Jeremias 52:34

Verse 34

And - there was a continual diet given him - This was probably a ration allowed by the king for the support of Jehoiachin's household. For other particulars, see the note on 2Kgs 25:30.

All the days of his life - I believe these words have been by mistake added from the preceding verse. There, they are proper; here, they are tautological. They are wanting in the Septuagint and in the Arabic.

The preceding words, עד יום מותו ad yom motho, "to the day of his death," are wanting in two of De Rossi's and one of Kennicott's MSS.

Coverdale ends thus: - All the days of his life until he died. This is better than the common Version.

Immediately after this verse my old MS. Bible adds the following words: And done is aftir that into caitifte is brougt Israel, and Jerusalem is bestroide, satte Jeremye the prophet weepund, and weiled with this lamentation Jerusalem; and with bitter inwit sighand and criand weilawai, seide. Then follows in red letters: Here beginneth the Lamentation of Jeremye, that is intitle Cenoth; with the sortynge out of Ebrue letters.

Aleph: How sitteth aloon the city, etc. See something of a similar kind from other authorities, at the beginning of Lamentations.

Masoretic notes

Number of verses in this Book, 1365.

Middle verse, Jer 28:11.

Masoretic sections, 31.

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