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In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

In the ninth year of Zedekiah. — See on 2 Kings 25:1 .

Came Nebuchadnezzar. — He came to the siege in person, but soon after retired himself to Riblah, i.e., to Antioch in Syria, there to take his pleasure, and therehence to send supplies to his forces as need required.

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[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

And in the eleventh year. — See on 2 Kings 25:2 . The sacking of Jerusalem occured four hundred and nineteen years after the building of the temple, (1004 to 588 BC) in the forty-seventh Olympiad, and when Tarquinius Priseus was king of Rome.

The city was broken up. — See on 2 Kings 25:4 .

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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

In the middle gate. — Called the second gate (Zephaniah 2:10 ; see Jeremiah 1:15 ). Jeremiah lived to see many of his prophecies fulfilled. Jerusalem was taken in or about the fortieth year of his prophesying, as it was afterwards by the Romans, in or about the fortieth year after our Saviour’s ministry started.

Even Nergalsharezer, Shamgarnebo. — Here we have a list of the Babylonian princes who first broke into the city. Their names are harsh and barbarous (such as are now to our ears the Turkish Bashaws, Beglerbegs, Sanzacks, …), but good enough for such to hear as would not yield to the sweet name and counsel of a gracious God. Those names that have Sar or Rab in them are deemed to be names of office; as Sarezer, master of the treasures; Rabinag, master of the magicians, …

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And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

When Zedekiah the king saw them. — Not entered, but ready to enter. See 2 Kings 25:4 .

He went out the way of the plain. — Intending likely for Egypt; but his journey was shortened. So was Muliasses, king of Tunis, when fleeing from his son Amidas, he was discovered by the sweet perfumes he had about him; and being brought back, had, like Zedekiah, his eyes put out with a burning hot iron.

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But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

But the Chaldeans pursued. — See on 2 Kings 25:5 .

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Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

See on 2 Kings 25:6-7 .

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Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

See on 2 Kings 25:7 .

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And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

See on 2 Kings 25:8 .

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