But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
Though we have reason to think that the army of the Chaldeans were much enraged against the city for holding out with so much stubbornness, yet they did not therefore put all to fire and sword as soon as they had taken the city (which is too commonly done in such cases), but about a month after (compare Kg2 25:8 with Kg2 25:3) Nebuzar-adan was...
Commenting on 2 Kings 25:8-21
ZEDEKIAH TAKEN. (2Ki. 25:4-30) the city was broken up--that is, a breach was effected, as we are elsewhere informed, in a part of the wall belonging to the lower city (Ch2 32:5; Ch2 33:14). the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden--The king's garden was (Neh 3:15) at the pool of...
Commenting on 2 Kings 25:4-30
2Ki 25:11-12 The rest of the people he led away, both those who had been left behind in the city and the deserters who had gone over to the Chaldaeans, and the remnant of the multitude. ההמון יתר, for which we have האמון יתר in Jer 52:15, has been interpreted in various ways.
Commenting on 2 Kings 25:11-12