2 Kings 25 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

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.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)2 Kings 25

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