24 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars,.... The pillars of brass that stood in the temple; the one called Boaz, and the other Jachin, 1 Kings 7:15; and concerning the sea; the sea of molten brass, which stood upon twelve oxen, 1 Kings 7:23; and concerning the bases: the ten bases, which also were made of brass, 1 Kings 7:27; and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,.... For he seems only to have taken the vessels of gold, and left the vessels of brass, as the above were; see 2 Kings 24:13; when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; of which see 2 Kings 24:12.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the Lord,.... Which are mentioned in Jeremiah 27:19; together with others: and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and of Jerusalem; see Jeremiah 27:18.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They shall be carried to Babylon,.... As they were; and of which, with others, there is a particular account in 2 Kings 25:13; and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith to the Lord; the Chaldeans in a way of wrath, and the Jews in a way of grace and favour; which was at the end of the seventy years' captivity; and so long the...