Jeremiah 52:3

3 The enemies of Jerusalem and Judah attacked them because the LORD was angry. In the end he threw them out of his land. Zedekiah refused to obey the king of Babylonia.

Jeremiah 52:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:3

For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem
and Judah
Or, "besides the anger of the Lord [that] was in", or "against Jerusalem and Judah" ^F14; for their many sins and transgressions committed against him: till he had cast them out from his presence;
out of the land of Judea; out of Jerusalem, and the temple, where were the symbols of his presence; so the Targum,

``till he removed them from the land of the house of his Shechinah;''

or majesty: that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon:
acted a very perfidious part, and broke a solemn covenant made with him by an oath, which was highly displeasing to God, and resented by him; the oath being made in his name, and by one that professed to worship him: this was an additional sin to those of the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, which provoked the Lord to anger. According to our version the sense is, that because of the anger of the Lord for the sins of the Jews, God suffered Zedekiah to rebel against the king of Babylon, that so he might be provoked to come against them, and take vengeance on them; or for his former sins he suffered him to fall into this, to his own and his people's ruin.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (hwhy Pa le yk) "nam praeter iram Jehovae, quae fuit contra Hierosolymam", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 52:3 In-Context

1 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years. His mother's name was Hamutal. She was the daughter of Jeremiah. She was from Libnah.

2 Zedekiah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did just as Jehoiakim had done.

3 The enemies of Jerusalem and Judah attacked them because the LORD was angry. In the end he threw them out of his land. Zedekiah refused to obey the king of Babylonia.

4 Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia. He marched out against Jerusalem. All of his armies went with him. It was in the ninth year of the rule of Zedekiah. It was on the tenth day of the tenth month. The armies set up camp outside the city. They set up ladders and built ramps and towers all around it.

5 It was surrounded until the 11th year of King Zedekiah's rule.