Jeremiah 52:7-17

7 Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^[a] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^[b]

8 but the Babylonian^[c] army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

9 and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him.

10 There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah.

11 Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

13 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

14 The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

15 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen^[d] and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.

16 But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

17 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

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Jeremiah 52:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 52

This chapter contains the history of the besieging, taking, and destroying of Jerusalem; the moving cause of it, the wicked reign of Zedekiah, Jer 52:1-3; the instruments of it, the king of Babylon and his army, which besieged and took it, Jer 52:4-7; into whose hands the king of Judah, his sons, and the princes of Judah, fell; and were very barbarously and cruelly used by them, Jer 52:8-11. Then follows an account of the burning of the temple, the king's palace, and the houses in Jerusalem, and the breaking down of the walls of it, Jer 52:12-14; and of those that were carried captive, and of those that were left in the land by Nebuzaradan, Jer 52:15,16; and of the several vessels and valuable things in the temple, of gold, silver, and brass, it was plundered of, and carried to Babylon, Jer 52:17-23; and of the murder of several persons of dignity and character, Jer 52:24-27; and of the number of those that were carried captive at three different times, Jer 52:28-30; and the chapter is concluded with the exaltation of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and of the good treatment he met with from the king of Babylon to the day of his death, Jer 52:31-34.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

1. Lamentations 4:19
2. S Jeremiah 21:7; S Jeremiah 32:4
3. S Numbers 34:11
4. S Numbers 13:21
5. S Jeremiah 22:30
6. Jeremiah 34:4; Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:16
7. Zechariah 7:5; Zechariah 8:19
8. ver 26; Jeremiah 39:9
9. S 2 Chronicles 36:19; S Psalms 74:8; Lamentations 2:6
10. S Deuteronomy 29:24; Psalms 79:1; Micah 3:12
11. S Deuteronomy 13:16; S Jeremiah 19:13
12. S Nehemiah 1:3; Lamentations 2:8
13. S 2 Kings 24:1; S Jeremiah 1:3
14. S Jeremiah 38:19
15. Jeremiah 40:6
16. S 1 Kings 7:15
17. 1 Kings 7:27-37
18. S 1 Kings 7:23
19. Jeremiah 27:19-22

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or "Chaldeans" ; also in verse 17
[b]. Or "the Jordan Valley"
[c]. Or "Chaldean" ; also in verse 14
[d]. Or "the populace"