The destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple, and the carrying away of the people, which are only very summarily stated in Jeremiah 39:8-10, are here related in complete accordance with the account given in 2 Kings 25:8-17. The deviations for the most part originated through the freedom exercised by the epitomizer in his work, or only when mistakes were made by later copyists. The text before us has some amplifications (especially the notices regarding the ornaments of the brazen pillars, Jeremiah 52:23) which are found nowhere else in the Old Testament. The difference in date between Jeremiah 52:12 ("on the tenth of the month") and the passage in Kings ("on the seventh of the month") has arisen through one number having been mistaken for another in copying; it cannot now be decided which is correct; see on 2 Kings 25:18. As to Nebuzaradan, see on Jeremiah 39:13. Instead of עמד , is found עבד in 2 Kings 25:8, which certainly is a simpler reading, but one having less appearance of being the original. The only strange point is the want of the relative אשׁר in plain prose before עמד, which is probably to be pointed עמד. בּירוּשׁלים, instead of ירוּשׁלים (Kings), is a pregnant expression for "he came into Jerusalem." - Jeremiah 52:14. From the expression את־כּל־חומות, as given in Jeremiah 52:14, "all" is omitted in Kings, as being not indispensable for the meaning.

Jeremiah 52:18 Parallel Commentaries

caldrons

Exodus 27:3 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his meat hooks, and his fire pans...

Exodus 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and the meat hooks, and the fire pans...

2 Kings 25:14-16 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered...

Ezekiel 46:20-24 Then said he to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering...

the shovels. or, instruments to remove the ashes

Numbers 4:14 And they shall put on it all the vessels thereof, with which they minister about it, even the censers, the meat hooks, and the shovels...

1 Kings 7:40,45 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins...

2 Chronicles 4:11,16 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins...

the snuffers

Exodus 25:29 And you shall make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover with...

Exodus 37:16 And he made the vessels which were on the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover with, of pure gold.

Numbers 4:7,14 And on the table of show bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls...

1 Kings 7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold...

1 Chronicles 28:17 Also pure gold for the meat hooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin...

2 Chronicles 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left...

Ezra 1:10 Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

the spoons

Numbers 7:13,14,19,20,26,32,38,44,50,56 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels...

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2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada...