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1. Ninth year… tenth month… tenth day Compare also the specification of exact dates in 2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 25:8. “These dates,” says Bahr, “could be given thus accurately to the month and the day, because the Jews were accustomed during the exile to fast on the anniversary of these days of disaster.” See Zechariah 7:3; Zechariah 7:5; Zechariah 8:19. On this same day Ezekiel received and uttered his oracle of woe against Jerusalem. Ezekiel 24:1.
He, and all his host Nebuchadnezzar was, doubtless, present more or less during the two years of siege at Jerusalem, to counsel and direct the besieging army, but he seems to have had his own headquarters most of the time at Riblah. 2 Kings 25:6; 2 Kings 25:20. During this same campaign he also fought “against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah; for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.” Jeremiah 34:7.
Built forts against it round about The word rendered forts ( דיק ) Michaelis explains as a wall or line of circumvallation. This is favoured by the Septuagint and the expression round about. But according to Gesenius the word means a watchtower, and is here to be taken collectively in the sense of towers erected by the besiegers to overlook and harass the city.
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