aFor this chapter cf. chap. 39 above and 2 Kings 24–25. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בןעשרים
672
ואחת
415
שנה
355
צדקיהו
215
במלכו
98
ואחת
415
עשרה
575
שנה
355
מלך
90
בירושלם
588
ושם
346
אמו
47
חמיטל
97
חמוטל
93
בתירמיהו
673
מלבנה
127
Jeremiah 52:2
Gematria: 1946
ויעשהרעבעינייהוהככלאשרעשהיהויקם
He did what was displeasing to GOD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah were a cause of anger for GOD, so thatbwere a cause of anger for GOD, so that Meaning of Heb. uncertain. they were cast out from the divine presence.Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And in the ninth year of hischis I.e., Zedekiah’s. reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadrezzar moved against Jerusalem with his whole army. They besieged it and built towers against it all around.
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ויהי
31
בשנה
357
התשעית
1185
למלכו
126
בחדש
314
העשירי
595
בעשור
578
לחדש
342
בא
3
נבוכדראצר
573
מלךבבל
124
הוא
12
וכלחילו
110
עלירושלם
686
ויחנו
80
עליה
115
ויבנו
74
עליה
115
דיק
114
סביב
74
Jeremiah 52:5
Gematria: 3151
ותבאהעירבמצורעדעשתיעשרהשנהלמלךצדקיהו
The city continued in a state of siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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ותבא
409
העיר
285
במצור
338
עד
74
עשתי
780
עשרה
575
שנה
355
למלך
120
צדקיהו
215
Jeremiah 52:6
Gematria: 2991
בחדשהרביעיבתשעהלחדשויחזקהרעבבעירולאהיהלחםלעםהארץ
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine had become acute in the city; there was no food left for the common people.
Then [the wall of] the city was breached. All the soldiers fled; they left the city by night through the gate between the double walls, which is near the king’s garden—the Chaldeans were all around the city—and they set out for the Arabah.dset out for the Arabah See note at 39.4.
Then the eyes of Zedekiah were put out, and he was chained in bronze fetters. The king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and put him in prison, [where he remained] to the day of his death.
On the tenth day of the fifth month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, came to representeto represent Lit. “he stood before.” the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.
He burned the House of GOD, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down the house of every notable person.fevery notable person Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
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וישרף
596
אתביתיהוה
839
ואתבית
819
המלך
95
ואת
407
כלבתי
462
ירושלם
586
ואתכלבית
869
הגדול
48
שרף
580
באש
303
Jeremiah 52:14
Gematria: 3762
ואתכלחמותירושלםסביבנתצוכלחילכשדיםאשראתרבטבחים
The entire Chaldean force that was with the chief of the guards tore down all the walls of Jerusalem on every side.
The remnant of the people left in the city, the defectors who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and what remained of the artisansgwhat remained of the artisans Apparently after the deportation of 2 Kings 24.14; meaning of Heb. uncertain. were taken into exile by Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards. But some of the poorest elements of the population—
Word-by-Word Analysis
ומדלות
486
העם
115
ואתיתר
1017
העם
115
הנשארים
606
בעיר
282
ואתהנפלים
622
אשר
501
נפלו
166
אלמלך
121
בבל
34
ואת
407
יתר
610
האמון
102
הגלה
43
נבוזראדן
320
רבטבחים
271
Jeremiah 52:16
Gematria: 2330
ומדלותהארץהשאירנבוזראדןרבטבחיםלכרמיםוליגבים
some of the poorest in the land—were left by Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, to be vine-dressers and field hands.
The Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of GOD, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of GOD; and they carried all the bronze away to Babylon.
The chief of the guards took whatever was of gold and whatever was of silver: basins, fire pans, sprinkling bowls, pails, lampstands, ladles, and jars.
The two columns, the one tank and the twelve bronze oxen that supported it, and the stands, which King Solomon had provided for the House of GOD—all these objects contained bronze beyond weighing.
It had a bronze capital above it; the height of each capital was five cubits, and there was a meshwork [decorated] with pomegranates about the capital, all made of bronze; and so for the second column, also with pomegranates.
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וכתרת
1026
עליו
116
נחשת
758
וקומת
552
הכתרת
1025
האחת
414
חמש
348
אמות
447
ושבכה
333
ורמונים
352
עלהכותרת
1131
סביב
74
הכל
55
נחשת
758
וכאלה
62
לעמוד
150
השני
365
ורמונים
352
Jeremiah 52:23
Gematria: 3045
ויהיוהרמניםתשעיםוששהרוחהכלהרמוניםמאהעלהשבכהסביבס
There were ninety-six pomegranates facing outward;hfacing outward Meaning of Heb. uncertain. all the pomegranates around the meshwork amounted to one hundred.
And from the city he took a eunuch who was in command of the soldiers; seven royal privy councillors, who were present in the city; the scribe of the army commander, who was in charge of mustering the people of the land; and sixty of the common people who were inside the city.
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ומןהעיר
381
לקח
138
סריס
330
אחד
13
אשרהיה
521
פקיד
194
עלאנשי
461
המלחמה
128
ושבעה
383
אנשים
401
מראי
251
פניהמלך
235
אשר
501
נמצאו
187
בעיר
282
ואת
407
ספר
340
שר
500
הצבא
98
המצבא
138
אתעם
511
הארץ
296
וששים
656
איש
311
מעם
150
הארץ
296
הנמצאים
236
בתוך
428
העיר
285
Jeremiah 52:26
Gematria: 2467
ויקחאותםנבוזראדןרבטבחיםוילךאותםאלמלךבבלרבלתה
Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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ויקח
124
אותם
447
נבוזראדן
320
רבטבחים
271
וילך
66
אותם
447
אלמלך
121
בבל
34
רבלתה
637
Jeremiah 52:27
Gematria: 2818
ויכהאותםמלךבבלוימתםברבלהבארץחמתויגליהודהמעלאדמתוס
The king of Babylon had them struck down and put to death at Riblah, in the region of Hamath.Thus Judah was exiled from its land.
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, took note ofitook note of Lit. “raised the head of.” King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
A regular allotment of food was given him by order of the king of Babylon, an allotment for each day, to the day of his death—all the days of his life.