2 Kings 25

2 Kings 25:3

FOurth moneth] this number is supplied by Ier. 52. 6. [for the people] for the meanest sort; well there might be a little left for the better sort.

2 Kings 25:4

The City] see Ier. 39. 2. 3. [of the Gate] see Ier. 39. 4. [and the King] according to the prophecy, Ezech. 12. 13.

2 Kings 25:8

Captaine] see Genesis 37:36.

2 Kings 25:18

Chiefe Priest] that is to say, high Priest: [second] his great Deputy, & next to the high Priest in the Priestly line; such as there were alwayes one or two: Elzar under Aaron, Phineas under Eleazar, &c. see Numbers 3:32. 2 Samuel 8:17. 2 Kings 23:4. [of the door] or of the holy vessels, Ier. 35. 4. see upon 2 Kings 12:9.

2 Kings 25:19

And five] Ier. 52. 25. there are seven; whether it be by reason that they were taken at severall times, or that the sive were the chiefe: [that were] the Italian, of his familiars, of his in imate friends; the Hebrew, of them who beheld the Kings face.

2 Kings 25:23

All the] these are the heads of the men of warre which forsook Zedekiah, vers. 5.

2 Kings 25:27

seven and twentieth] see upon Ier. 52. 310 [Evilmerodach] Sonne of Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Kings 25:29

Before him] in his royal palace, or at his table.