Глава 52

1–34. The destruction of Jerusalem and the change in the position of the captive king Jehoiachin. Jeremiah 52:1–34. In fulfillment of the prophecies of Jeremiah, Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans and destroyed, its inhabitants were partly evicted, partly killed, the church was burned, and all the things from it, partly in broken form, were taken to Babylon. At the end of the chapter, a favorable change in the position of the captive king of Judah, Jeconiah, is spoken of. Jer.52:1. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years; His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. This chapter, which forms an addition to the book of Jeremiah, does not stand in direct connection with the previous chapters of the book. It, in content, seems almost identical to the last section of the 4th book of Kings (2 Kings 24.18 - 2 Kings 25.30). Only instead of what is found in 2 Kings 25.22–26, Jeremiah inserted, taken from nowhere, a listing of the Jews taken away by Nebuchadnezzar (v. Jer 2.8–30). Jer.52:2. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, all that Joachim did; Jer.52:3. therefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Jerusalem and Judah to the point that He cast them out from before Him; and Zedekiah revolted from the king of Babylon. These verses are not in the translation. LXX. For an explanation, see 2 Kings 24.18–20. Jeremiah 52:4–11. represent almost a repetition of 2 Kings 25.1–8. See explanation there. Jer.52:6. In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine increased in the city, and the people of the land had no bread. There is no indication for the 4th month in the book. Kingdoms, nor in LXX, although it was necessary to say about the ninth day of which month they are talking about. Jer.52:7. A breach was made into the city, and all the soldiers ran, and left the city at night through the gate located between the two walls, near the royal garden, and went along the road of the steppe; The Chaldeans were around the city. Jeremiah says in more detail that the entire garrison of Jerusalem took part in the flight with Zedekiah (cf. 2 Kings 25.4). Jer.52:10. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and slew all the princes of Judah at Riblah. Jer.52:11. And he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and ordered them to bind him with copper fetters; and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in the house of the guard until the day of his death. Jeremiah sets out the matter more fully than 2 Kings 25.7. – “House of the guard” – more precisely from Hebrew: “house of correction”, where, probably, Zedekiah and other captives were supposed to grind flour, like Samson once did (Judges 16.21). This is indicated by the LXX translation: house of millstones. Jer.52:12. In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—it was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. Jer.52:13. and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem, and all the great houses he burned with fire. Jer.52:14. And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, destroyed all the walls around Jerusalem. Jer.52:15. Nebuzaradan, the chief of the bodyguards, evicted the poor of the people and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and the renegades who were handed over to the king of Babylon, and in general the rest of the common people. Jer.52:16. Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guards, left only a few of the poor people of the land for vineyards and agriculture. Verses 12–16 are a repetition of 2 Kings 25.8–12; 2 Kings 25.8 indicates that the arrival of Nebuzaradan and the burning of the church took place on the seventh day of the 5th month, and Jeremiah places both on the tenth day. It is hardly possible to decide which date is more correct. Jer.52:17. And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands, and the sea of ​​brass that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their brass to Babylon. And seq. until 23 – Wed. 2 Kings 25.13 et seq. Jeremiah sets out everything here more fully than in 2 Kings. Jer.52:18. They took the basins, and spatulas, and knives, and bowls, and spoons, and all the copper vessels that were used during the Divine service; Jer.52:19. and the dishes, and tongs, and bowls, and cauldrons, and lamps, and incense, and mugs, whatever was gold - gold, and whatever was silver - silver, the chief of the bodyguard took; Both verses talk about bowls, but this is not a repetition: in one case, copper bowls are meant, in the other, gold and silver. It can be assumed that after Nebuchadnezzar took the church vessels in 597 when leading Jeconiah into captivity (2 Kings 24.13), such vessels were made again in a short time. Jer.52:20. also two pillars, one sea and twelve copper oxen, which served as stands that King Solomon made in the house of the Lord - the copper in all these things could not be weighed. "Twelve Bronze Oxen". This expression is not found in 2 Kings 25.16. It was taken by someone from 1 Kings 7.23–26 and, moreover, unsuccessfully, since these oxen, even under Ahaz, were given as tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglaphelasser (2 Kings 16.17). It should read: “the sea and (ten) bases.” Jer.52:23. There were ninety-six pomegranate apples on all sides; all the apples around the grid are one hundred. This instruction is not found in 4 Kings. Jer.52:24. The captain of the guard also took Seraiah the high priest and Zephaniah the second priest and three watchmen of the threshold. Jer.52:25. And from the city he took one eunuch, who was the commander of the military men, and seven men who stood before the king, who were in the city, and the chief scribe of the army, who registered the people of the land in the army, and sixty men from the people of the country, who were found in the city. Jer.52:26. And Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. Jer.52:27. And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; and Judah was driven out of his land. The verses are similar to 2 Kings 25.18 et seq. Jer.52:28. These are the people that Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Judah; Jer.52:29. in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two souls were deported from Jerusalem; Jer.52:30. in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported seven hundred and forty-five souls of Judah: a total of four thousand six hundred souls. These verses, not found in 2 Kings or even the LXX, establish that 4,600 souls of the Jews were carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar. Some chronological inaccuracies are noticeable here. It was the first migration (under Jehoiachin) of the Jews that was dated to the 7th year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, therefore, to the 597th year BC, and in 2 Kings - to the 8th year. It is difficult to say which indication is more correct. The newest interpreters do not even consider it possible to see in Jeremiah an indication of the captivity of Jeconiah and read instead the seventh year - the seventeenth year, therefore, they mean the captivity of the Jews from Zedekiah, in the 10th year of his reign... Then, in the 30th art. indicates some kind of resettlement of Jews, including 745 souls, which took place in the fifth year after the destruction of Jerusalem. No similar case is known from other sources, and the resettlement of the Jews from the already destroyed Jerusalem seems strange. We can only assume that some kind of special account is being kept here of the years of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Jer.52:31. In the thirty-seventh year after the exile of Jehoiakim *****, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, exalted Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and brought him out of the prison house. Jer.52:32. And he conversed with him in a friendly manner, and set his throne higher than the throne of the kings that he had in Babylon; Jer.52:34. And his maintenance, constant maintenance, was given to him from the king day after day until the day of his death, all the days of his life. For explanations, see 2 Kings 25.27–30. You might be interested in: