Verse 1
Of our captivity; of those that with Jeconiah, who is also called Jehoiachin, were carried away into captivity eleven years before Jerusalem was sacked and burnt. And this falls in with the 3374th year of the world, or near it; about 574 years before Christ’s incarnation.
In the beginning of the year; in the month Nisan.
The tenth day; the day that the paschal lamb was to be taken up in order to the feast on the tenth day, on which Israel went out of Egypt.
In the fourteenth year; which appears thus, the city was smitten in the eleventh year of Jeconiah’s captivity, or eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, to which if you add fourteen, they amount to twenty-five.
Was smitten; taken, plundered, and spoiled by the Babylonians.
In the selfsame day: this is very particularly noted, as of some weight.
The hand of the Lord; the Spirit of prophecy: see Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:14; Ezekiel 8:1.
Brought me; not by local motion carrying his body, but in visional representation, showing the prophet what he relates to us.
Thither; to Jerusalem, the place where it did stand, as appears in the next verse.
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