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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls,.... The two pillars of Jachin and Boaz before mentioned, and the molten or brasen sea, with the twelve bulls or oxen the sea stood upon, 1 Kings 7:25; that [were] under the bases; or "by the bases", as Jarchi; or rather, "that were instead of bases" (d); for the twelve oxen were the bases on which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits,.... As in 1 Kings 7:15; said to be thirty five, 2 Chronicles 3:15; of the reconciliation of which, [See comments on 2 Chronicles 3:15]: and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; a thread or line of that measure encompassed each of the pillars, 1 Kings 7:15; and the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it,.... Or a coronet of brass, of molten brass, was set upon the top of the pillar: and the height of one chapiter [was] five cubits; as in 1 Kings 7:16; but in 2 Kings 25:17; the height is said to be but three cubits; which is reconciled by the Jewish Rabbins thus, the three superior cubits of it were with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side,.... Or, "to the wind" (e); to the four winds; towards every corner or wind twenty four, which make up ninety six: [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round about; four, standing upon the four angles, made the ninety six a hundred; in 1 Kings 7:20; they are said to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,.... That is, out of the temple, where he was ministering, or fled for safety; this is supposed to be the father of Ezra, 1 Chronicles 6:14; and Zephaniah the second priest: or deputy priest: the "sagan" of the priests, as the Targum calls him, who was deputed to minister for the high...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war,.... The master-master-general of the army: and seven men of them which were near the king's person which were found in the city; or, "saw the face of the king": or rather, "made to see [his] face" (h); these were ministers of state, who were always at court, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them,.... In the city, and made them captives: and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah; to knew his mind concerning them; how they should be disposed of; and for him to pass sentence on them: as he had done on the king of Judah, his sons, and his princes, in the same place.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the king of Babylon smote them,.... Or ordered them to be smitten with the sword; to have their heads cut off, according to Josephus (l): and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath; these being such, no doubt, who obstinately defended the city, and persuaded the prince and people not to surrender the city into the hand of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year,.... That is, of his reign: in 2 Kings 24:12; it is said to be in the eighth year of his reign; it being at the latter end of the seventh, and the beginning of the eighth, as Kimchi observes; this was the captivity of Jeconiah: the number of the captives then were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar,.... Said to be the nineteenth, Jeremiah 52:12; it was at the end of the eighteenth, and the beginning of the nineteenth, as Kimchi; or this was before the taking of the city, when he raised the siege, and departed to meet the king of Egypt, at which time he might carry captive many, as here said: he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar,.... In this year of his reign, the Jews say (m), Tyre was delivered into his hands; and he carried off the Jews in Moab, Ammon, and the neighbouring nations, to the number after mentioned; though some think these were the poor people of the land he took from thence, after the murder of Gedaliah,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah,.... He was eighteen years of age when he was carried captive; so that he must be now fifty five years old; see 2 Kings 24:8; in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month; in the month Adar, which answers to part of February, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And spake kindly unto him,.... Used him with great familiarity, treated him with great respect: or, "spake good things to him" (s); comforted him in his captive state, and promised him many favours; and was as good as his word: and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon; these kings were either petty kings...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And changed his prison garments,.... Which were filthy, and of an ill smell; and put on him raiment more comfortable, as well as more honourable, and suitable to his dignity, and more fit to appear in, in the presence of the king and his court: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life: either at the same table with the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon,.... This seems to design not food only, and for himself, which he had daily at the king's table, but all necessary provisions for himself, family, and servants: every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life; that is, of Jeconiah's; how long...