Jeremiah 52:19

So that he was but between nine and ten years of age when his father Josiah died; for Jehoahaz reigned three months, Jehoiakim eleven years, and his son three months and ten days: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah; by which it appears that he was the brother of Jehoahaz by father and mother's side, 2 Kings 23:31. This and the two following verses are expressed in the same words as in Jeremiah 52:1, See Gill on "Jeremiah 52:1", See Gill on "Jeremiah 52:2", See Gill on "Jeremiah 52:3", in 2 Chronicles 36:10, besides what is here said, is written, that he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet of the Lord, that spoke in his name, but opposed him; and rebelling against the king of Babylon, broke his oath, and hardened his neck and heart against the Lord, and was obstinate, stubborn, and self-willed. 2 Kings 24:19 Ver. 19. See Gill on "2 Kings 24:18". 2 Kings 24:20 Ver. 20.

And the basins,.... Or "bowls"; these are omitted, 2 Kings 25:15 ; they were of gold, 1 Kings 7:50 ; and the firepans; or "censers"; these were those of gold, which belonged to the golden altar, 1 Kings 7:50; and the bowls; or "basins"; there were a hundred of them made of gold, 2 Chronicles 4:8; and the cauldrons; or "pots"; these are not mentioned, 2 Kings 25:15; what they should be, that were either of gold or silver, cannot be said: and the candlesticks; of which there were ten in number, made of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, 1 Kings 7:49; and the spoons; which were also of gold, 1 Kings 7:50; and the cups: the word is rendered "bowls", to cover withal, Exodus 25:29; it was some kind of instrument or vessel used about the shewbread table, made of pure gold; according to Jarchi, these were little golden forks, upon which they placed the shewbread, to keep it from moulding; according to the Misna (c), there were four of them: that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away; that is, everything that was of gold or silver he took away; the golden things by themselves, and the silver things by themselves, as some think. (c) Menachot, c. 11. sect. 6.

The carrying away of the vessels of the temple is more fully stated than in 2 Kings 25:13-17 . The large brazen articles, the two pillars at the porch (cf. 1 Kings 7:15 .), the bases ( 1 Kings 7:27 .), and the brazen sea ( 1 Kings 7:23 .), which were too vast in their proportions to be easily carried away to Babylon, were broken to pieces by the Chaldeans, who carried off the brass of which they were made. אשׁר לבּית is more correct than אשׁר (Kings), and "all their brass" is more precise than simply "their brass" (Kings). In the enumeration of the smaller brazen vessels used for the temple service, Jeremiah 52:18 , there is omitted, in 2 Kings, ואת־המּזרקות, "and the bowls" (used in sacrifice); this omission is perhaps due merely to an error in transcription. The enumeration of the gold and silver vessels in Jeremiah 52:19 has been much more abbreviated in 2 Kings 25:15 , where only "the fire-pans and the bowls" are mentioned, while in the text here, besides these there are named "the basons," then "the pots (Eng. vers. caldrons), and the candlesticks, and the pans (Eng. vers. spoons), and the cups." For particulars regarding these different vessels, see on 1 Kings 7:40 , 1 Kings 7:45 , 1 Kings 7:50 . In Jeremiah 52:20 , reference is made to the fact that the mass of metal in the vessels that were carried away was without weight.

The same is stated in 2 Kings 25:16 , where, however, there is no mention of the twelve brazen bulls; while in the text of Jeremiah, אשׁר תּחת המּכנות is faulty, and we must read instead, אשׁר תּחתּיו והמּכנות. The assertion of Graf, in his commentary on this verse, and of Thenius on 2 Kings 25:16 , - that the notice regarding the twelve brazen bulls is incorrect, because these were then no longer in Jerusalem (27:19), but had previously been removed by Ahaz from under the brazen sea for Tiglath-pileser, - we have already, under 2 Kings 16:17 , shown to be erroneous. The apposition of כּל־הכּלים to לנחשׁתּם explains the reference of the suffix. In Jeremiah 52:21-23 , the narrator, in order to call attention to the amount of art exhibited on the vessels destroyed by the Chaldeans, gives a brief description of the brazen pillars with their capitals. This description is much shortened in 2 Kings 25:17 , and contains notices completing that which is given of these works of art in 1 Kings 7 . For details, see the passage referred to.

[Bible] 51:59. The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy. 51:60. And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon. 51:61. And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words, 51:62. Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever. 51:63. And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates: 51:64. And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias. Jeremias Chapter 52 A recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of Jerusalem. The number of the captives. 52:1. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. 52:2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done. 52:3. For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon. 52:4. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about. 52:5. And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.

(Note: To this section the historical appendix to the book of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 52 ) furnishes a parallel, which agrees with it for the most part word for word, omitting only the short account of the murder of Gedaliah and of the flight of the people to Egypt ( 2 Kings 25:22-26 ), and adding instead a computation of the number of the people who were led away to Babel by Nebuchadnezzar ( Jeremiah 52:28-30 ). Apart from the less important variations, which have arisen in part simply from copyists' errors, we have in Jeremiah 52:18 , and especially in Jeremiah 52:21 and Jeremiah 52:22 , by no means unimportant notices concerning the vessels of the temple, especially concerning the ornaments of the brazen pillars, which do not occur anywhere in our books. It is evident from this that our text was not derived from Jer (Hvernick), and that Jer was not borrowed from our books of Kings and appended to the book of Jeremiah's prophecies (Ros., Maur., Ew., Graf).