Jeremiah 52:13

And burnt the house of the Lord,.... The temple built by Solomon, after it had stood four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days, according to Josephus (z): but the Jews say it stood but four hundred ten years (a): and the king's house; the royal palace; probably that which was built by Solomon, 1 Kings 7:1; and all the houses of Jerusalem: of any note or strength: and all the houses of the great men burnt he with fire; of the princes and nobles in Jerusalem; it is in the singular number, "and every house of the great one"; or "every great house" (b); Jarchi interprets it of the synagogue, where prayer was magnified; and others, he says, understood it of the schools, where the law was magnified. (z) Autiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 5. (a) T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 3. 2. & Gloss. in ib. (b) "omnem domum magnatis", Cocceius; "omnemque domum magnam", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

The destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple, and the carrying away of the people, which are only very summarily stated in Jeremiah 39:8-10 , are here related in complete accordance with the account given in 2 Kings 25:8-17 . The deviations for the most part originated through the freedom exercised by the epitomizer in his work, or only when mistakes were made by later copyists. The text before us has some amplifications (especially the notices regarding the ornaments of the brazen pillars, Jeremiah 52:23 ) which are found nowhere else in the Old Testament. The difference in date between Jeremiah 52:12 ("on the tenth of the month") and the passage in Kings ("on the seventh of the month") has arisen through one number having been mistaken for another in copying; it cannot now be decided which is correct; see on 2 Kings 25:18 . As to Nebuzaradan, see on Jeremiah 39:13 . Instead of עמד , is found עבד in 2 Kings 25:8 , which certainly is a simpler reading, but one having less appearance of being the original. The only strange point is the want of the relative אשׁר in plain prose before עמד, which is probably to be pointed עמד. בּירוּשׁלים, instead of ירוּשׁלים (Kings), is a pregnant expression for "he came into Jerusalem." - Jeremiah 52:14 . From the expression את־כּל־חומות, as given in Jeremiah 52:14 , "all" is omitted in Kings, as being not indispensable for the meaning.

le on this verse. Jeremiah 52:9 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 52:10 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 52:11 This history is found 2Ki_25:1-7, much in the same words. See the annotations on that chapter. Jeremiah also hath the substance of it, Jer_39:1-7; only neither of those places have the last words, from whence we learn that Zedekiah died in Babylon a prisoner. Jeremiah 52:12 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 52:13 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 52:14 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 52:15 No text from Poole on this verse. ## Jeremiah 52:16 See Poole " 2Ki_25:8 " , See Poole " 2Ki_25:9 " , See Poole " 2Ki_25:10 " , See Poole " 2Ki_25:11 " , See Poole " 2Ki_25:12 " where all this is related, only with a small difference as to the day of the month when Nebuzar-adan came to Jerusalem and burned the temple. In the Kings it i