Geneva Bible Notes (1560): 2 Kings 25

^{1 !} Jerusalem is besieged of Nebuchad-nezzar & taken.

^{1 a} That is, of Zedekiah.

^{1 b} Which the Ebrewes call Tebet, and it conteineth part of December & parte of Januarie.

^{1 c} In so muche that the mothers did eat their children {Lametn. 4,10}

^{1 /} Or, a mount

^{4 d} Which was a postern dore or some secret gate to issue out at.

^{6 e} Or condemned him for his perjurie & treason, {1 Chro. 36,13}

^{7 !} The sonnes of Zedekiah are slayne before his eyes, & after are his wone eyes put out.

^{8 /} Or, captaine of the garde.

^{8 f} Jeremie writteth {Chap. 52, 12} the tenth day, because the fyre continued from the seuenth day to the tenth.

^{11 g} While the siege indured.

^{14 h} Of these read {Exod. 27,3}

^{18 i} That is, one appointed to succede in the hie Priests rowme, if he were sicke or els otherwise letted.

^{19 k} Jeremie maketh mencion of seuen, but here he speaketh of them that were the chiefest.

^{21 !} Judah is broght to Babylon.

^{24 l} That is, he did exhorte them in the Name of the Lord, according to Jeremies consel, to submit them selues to Nebuchad-nezzar, seing it was the reueled wil of the Lord.

^{25 !} Gedoliah is slayne.

^{26 m} Contrary to Jeremies counsel, {Jere. 40, 41 & 42, 43}

^{27 !} Jehoiachin is exalted.

^{27 n} Thus long was he, his wife, & his children in Babylon whome Nebuchadnezzars sonne, after his fathers death, preferred to honour: thus God prouidence the sede of Dauid was reserued euen vnto Christ.

^{30 o} Meaning, that he had an ordinarie in the court.