Jeremiah 39:6
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What does Jeremiah 39:6 mean?
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in
Riblah
before his eyes
Not with his own hands, but gave orders to do it: these must be
very young, at least some of them; since Zedekiah at this time
was but thirty two years of age. This must be a dreadful
spectacle for him to behold; and the consideration must be
cutting, that it was owing to his own obstinacy in not taking the
advice of the Prophet Jeremiah to surrender to the Chaldeans,
whereby he and his family would have been saved, ( Jeremiah
38:17 ) ; also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles
of Judah;
who did not come over to the Chaldean army and surrender
themselves; such who advised the king to stand out to the last,
and who fled, and were taken with him; as many of them as fell
into the hands of the king of Babylon. Jarchi says those were the
sanhedrim, who loosed Zedekiah from his oath to Nebuchadnezzar.
