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2019 March 20

Jeremiah 52

The Burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar's Army (1630-1660)
Circle of Juan de la Corte (1597-1660) // Source/Photographer Google Art Project
Baroque Style
Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
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[ Illustration: Today's painting depicts the fall of Jerusalem, an event described below in today's chapter. ]

SPECIAL NOTE:

[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]

     Explanation: Jeremiah 52 describes the destruction of Jerusalem and the capture of king Zedekiah, around 586 B.C., by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, with a historical vignette some years later concerning Zedekiah's predecessor, king Jehoiachin (see also 2 Kings 25; 2 Chronicles 36:11-21; and Jeremiah 39:1-14). This chapter may have been written by Ezra. The chapter opens with historical notes about Zedekiah, his pedigree, and his rebellion against Nebuchadrezzar (1-3).
     For Zedekiah's rebellion, Nebuchadrezzar laid siege to Jerusalem until the inhabitants were starving (4-6).
     At that point, the city was broken up, and Zedekiah and his warriors fled by night (7).
     But the Chaldean army captured them and took them to Riblah (about 225 miles north of Jerusalem) in the land of Hamath where Nebuchadrezzar killed Zedekiah's sons before his eyes, put out Zedekiah's eyes, and put him in prison in Babylon till the day he died (8-11).
     Meanwhile, Nebuzaradan, captain of Nebuchadrezzar's guard, entered Jerusalem and burned the Temple along with the houses of the people and of the great men of the city (12-13).
     They also broke down the walls of Jerusalem and carried away many captives, leaving only a few to be vinedressers and farmers - or "ploughmen" (14-16).
     They also took the treasures of the Temple, the king's house, and the other houses in Jerusalem (17-23).
     They then took the chief priest and a number of other officials to Riblah where Nebuchadrezzar executed them (24-27).
     In all, 4,600 persons were sent to exile in Babylon (28-30).
     Many years later, when Evilmerodach was king of Babylon, he brought Zedekiah's predecessor, Jehoiachin, out of prison and gave him a place of honor in his court until the day he died, a striking contrast to Zedekiah's fate, who lived in prison till the day he died (31-34).

     [ Sermons: G I Williamson. Philip Ryken. Various. ]

Bible Chronologies -- Genesis to Revelation

[Traditional Patriarchal Chronology. Judges Period Chronology 1. Judges Period Chronology 2. Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].

[Post Exile Chronology 1. Post Exile Chronology 2. Post Exile Chronology 3.]

[Prophets Chronology 1. Prophets Chronology 2. Prophets Chronology 3. Prophets Chronology 4.]

[Intertestamental Period Chronology 1. Intertestamental Period Chronology 2. Intertestamental Period Chronology 3.
Intertestamental Period Chronology 4. Intertestamental Period Chronology 5.]

[New Testament Chronology 1. New Testament Chronology 2. New Testament Chronology 3. New Testament Chronology 4. New Testament Chronology 5.]

RESOURCES

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          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Jeremiah 52: Jeremiah 46. Jeremiah 47. Jeremiah 48. Jeremiah 49. Jeremiah 50. Jeremiah 51. Jeremiah 52. ]
[1] 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:30.
[2] 1 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 24:19-20; 2 Chronicles 36:12-13; Ezekiel 17:15-21; Jeremiah 26:21-23; Jeremiah 36:21-23, 29-31.
[3] 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:15-21; Isaiah 19:4.
[4-5] Jeremiah 39:1; 2 Kings 25:1-27; Ezekiel 24:1-2.
[6] 2 Kings 25:3.
[7] 2 Kings 25:4.
[8] Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 34:21; Jeremiah 38:23.
[9] 2 Kings 25:6-7; Jeremiah 39:5.
[10] Jeremiah 39:6.
[11] Jeremiah 52:31.
[12] 2 Kings 25:8; Jeremiah 39:9.
[13] Jeremiah 7:14; 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Psalm 74:6-8; Psalm 79:1; Isaiah 64:10-11; Lamentations 2:7; Ezekiel 7:20-22; Ezekiel 24:21; Micah 3:12; Zechariah 11:1; Matthew 24:2; Jeremiah 34:22; Jeremiah 37:8-10; Jeremiah 38:23; Jeremiah 39:8-9; Ezekiel 24:1-14.
[14] 2 Kings 25:10; Nehemiah 1:3.
[15] 2 Kings 25:11.
[16] Jeremiah 39:9-10; Jeremiah 40:5-7.
[17] Jeremiah 52:21-23; Jeremiah 27:19-22; 1 Kings 7:15-22, 27, 50; 2 Kings 25:13-17; 2 Chronicles 4:12-13; 2 Chronicles 36:18; Lamentations 1:10; Daniel 1:2; 1 Kings 7:23-26; 2 Chronicles 4:14-15.
[18] Exodus 27:3; Exodus 38:3; 2 Kings 25:14-16; Ezekiel 46:20-24; Numbers 4:14; 1 Kings 7:40, 45; 2 Chronicles 4:11, 16; Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7, 14; 1 Kings 7:50; 1 Chronicles 28:17; 2 Chronicles 4:8; 2 Chronicles 4:8; Numbers 7:13-14, 19-20, 26, 32, 38, 44, 50, 56; 2 Chronicles 24:14.
[19] Exodus 25:31-39; Revelation 8:3-5; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:6-22.
[20] 1 Kings 7:47; 2 Kings 25:16; 1 Chronicles 22:14; 2 Chronicles 4:18.
[21] 1 Kings 7:15-21; 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chronicles 3:15-17.
[22] Exodus 28:14-22, 25; 1 Kings 7:17; 2 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Chronicles 4:12-13.
[23] 1 Kings 7:20.
[24] 2 Kings 25:18; 1 Chronicles 6:14; Ezra 7:1; Jeremiah 21:1.
[25] 2 Kings 25:19.
[26-27] 2 Kings 25:20-21.
[28] 2 Kings 24:2-3, 12-16; Daniel 1:1-3.
[29] Jeremiah 39:9; 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Chronicles 36:20.
[30] Jeremiah 6:9.
[31] 2 Kings 25:27-30.
[32] Jeremiah 27:6-11.
[33] Isaiah 61:1-3.
[34] Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3.
     -- From Treasury of Scripture Knowledge & Others ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). PROVERBS: Book of Proverbs. ECCLESIASTES: Book of Ecclesiastes Dramatized. SONG OF SOLOMON: Song of Solomon Dramatized. ISAIAH: Isaiah Dramatized. JEREMIAH: Jeremiah Dramatized. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]

HARMONY OF THE LAW

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GOSPEL HARMONIES

Gospel Harmony - Summary | The Harmony of the Gospels - Augustine | Gospel Harmony Chart - Online Bible

Greek Harmony of the Gospels - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF) | Gospel Harmony in English - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF)

HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES

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Jeremiah Detailed Outline

Jeremiah 52

Map 1: Bible Nations | Map 2: Empire of David and Solomon Map 3: Kingdoms of Judah and Israel | Post Exile Chronology.

1. Prophecies for Judah + Jerusalem's Fall & the Aftermath (1:1 - 45:5 ) - 627 - 560 B.C., Israel

2. Prophecies about Foreign Nations + Jerusalem's Fall & the Aftermath (46:1 - 52:34) 627 - 560 B.C., Israel

A. Foreign Nations (46 - 51)

B. The Fall of Jerusalem and the Release of Jehoiachin (52:1-34)

     ¹ Zedekiah was one and twenty one years old [a son of twenty, and one year] when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ² And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ³ For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out -- [them] -- from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

     ⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. ⁵ So the city was besieged [came in siege] unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ⁶ And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁷ Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. ⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook [this] Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. ⁹ Then they took [this] the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew [this] the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also [this] all the princes of Judah in Riblah. ¹¹ Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison [a house of visitation] till the day of his death.

     ¹² Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served [stood before] the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, ¹³ And burned [this] the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: ¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. ¹⁵ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. ¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

     ¹⁷ Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried [this] all the brass of them to Babylon. ¹⁸ The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. ¹⁹ And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away. ²⁰ The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ²¹ And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. ²² And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. ²³ And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

     ²⁴ And the captain of the guard took [this] Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: ²⁵ He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered [this] the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and bought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ²⁷ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

     ²⁸ This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: ²⁹ In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: ³⁰ In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

³¹ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captiviy of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up [this] the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and bought him forth -- [him] -- out of prison [a house of the detention], ³² And spake kindly unto him, and set [this] his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, ³³ And changed [this] his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. ³⁴ And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day [a day in his day] a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

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