13. All the houses of the great Literally, every house the great. “The meaning is, that only the larger houses were burned; and as the article here is intensive, it should be rendered all the largest houses.” Speaker’s Commentary. read more
23. Ninety and six pomegranates on a side; all… were a hundred The Hebrew for “on a side” is windwards, and it cannot mean that there were “ninety-six pomegranates” on each side, for then, as the capitals were square, the whole number would have been three hundred and eighty-four. The expression must mean that “ninety-six” were toward the four winds, twenty-four facing each quarter; and one at each corner, which would be each toward two winds, as north-east, north-west, etc: this would... read more
28-30. In these verses we have an enumeration of the different deportations of Jews by Nebuchadrezzar, namely, first, 3,023 in the seventh year of his reign; second, 832 in the eighteenth year of his reign; and third, 745 in the twenty-third year of his rule; thus giving for the total, 4,600. In this statement there are, as all confess, serious, if not inexplicable, difficulties. For example, in Jeremiah 52:12 the second deportation is represented as occurring in the nineteenth year of... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 52:12
12. The tenth day of the month In 2 Kings 25:8, we read the seventh day. This discrepancy is probably owing to letters having been used for numerals, and the proper letter having been wrongly transcribed. read more