2 Kings 25:9-10 ASV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 25:9

He burnt the house of the Lord - Compare the prophecies of Jeremiah Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 34:2; Jeremiah 38:18, Jeremiah 38:23.Psalms 79:1-13; Psalms 79:1-13 is thought to have been written soon after this destruction of the temple. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 25:9

2 Kings 25:9. And he burnt the house of the Lord The king of Babylon, it appears, did not design to send any colonies to people Judea, and therefore ordered Jerusalem to be laid in ashes, as a nest of rebels. “At the burning of the king’s house,” says Henry, “and the houses of the great men, one cannot much wonder, the inhabitants had by their sins kindled the fire of God’s wrath against them; but that the house of the Lord should perish in these flames, that that holy and beautiful... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 25:1-21

The destruction of Jerusalem (24:18-25:21)All Judah’s most capable administrators had been taken captive to Babylon. The few advisers who were left to Zedekiah had no true understanding of the situation, either political or religious, and persuaded the weak king to seek Egypt’s help in rebelling against Babylon. This was a policy that Jeremiah clearly saw was disastrous, for it would lead only to the horrors of siege and destruction. His advice was that Judah accept its fate as God’s will and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 25:9

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . great man's house. See note on Proverbs 17:19 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 25:9

2 Kings 25:9. He burned the house of the Lord— Josephus tells us, that the temple was burned four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days after the building of it; one thousand and sixty years, six months, and ten days from the time of the Israelites' coming out of the land of Egypt; one thousand nine hundred and fifty years, six months, and ten days from the deluge; and three thousand five hundred and thirty years, six months, and ten days from the creation;* and he mentions it as... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 25:8-30

I. The Captivity of the Southern Kingdom 25:8-30Nebuzaradan, Nebuchadnezzar’s commander-in-chief, returned to destroy Jerusalem more thoroughly and to preclude any successful national uprising in Judah.His burning of Yahweh’s house (2 Kings 25:9) was a statement that the Babylonians had overcome Yahweh as much as it was an effort to keep the remaining Judahites from worshipping Him. This act would have thoroughly demoralized even the godly in Judah, since in the ancient Near East the condition... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 25:1-30

The Fall of JerusalemThis chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people.1. In the tenth day] The successive stages in the overthrow of the city are carefully marked by the historian: cp. 2 Kings 25:3, 2 Kings 25:8. Forts] perhaps movable towers for throwing troops upon the walls.3. The famine] the sufferings of the besieged are described in Jeremiah 21:7-9; Lamentations 4:8; Lamentations 5:10.4. The city... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 25:9

(9) He burnt the house . . . king’s house.—Which were in the upper city. (There should be a semicolon after “king’s house.”)And every great man’s house.—Omit man’s. The phrase limits the preceding one, “all the houses of Jerusalem,” that is to say, “every great house” (2 Chronicles 36:19, “all her palaces”). The common houses were spared for the poor who were left (2 Kings 25:12). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 25:10

(10) With the captain.—The preposition, though wanting in the common Hebrew text, is found in many MSS. and the old versions, as well as Jeremiah 52:0 read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 25:1-21

THE FALL OF JERUSALEMB.C. 5862 Kings 25:1-21"In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all nations."- Zechariah 12:3"An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: behold the end is come."- Ezekiel 7:6"Behold yon sterile spot Where now the wandering Arab’s tent Flaps in the desert blast; There once old Salem’s haughty fane Reared high to heaven its thousand golden domes, And in the blushing face of day Exposed its shameful glory."- SHELLEYAFTER the siege had lasted for... read more