But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
We left king Zedekiah in rebellion against the king of Babylon (Kg2 24:20), contriving and endeavouring to shake off his yoke, when he was no way able to do it, nor took the right method by making God his friend first. Now here we have an account of the fatal consequences of that attempt. I. The king of Babylon's army laid siege to Jerusalem, Kg2 25:1.
Commenting on 2 Kings 25:1-7
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
The army of the Chaldeans pursued - Zedekiah was taken, and brought captive to Riblah in Syria, where Nebuchadnezzar then lay, who ordered his sons to be slain before his face, and then put out his eyes; and having loaded him with chains, sent him to Babylon, (see Jer 39:4, Jer 39:7; Jer 52:7, Jer 52:11), thus fulfilling the prophetic declarations, that his eyes should...