Verse 8
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH, 2 Kings 25:8-21.
8. On the seventh day In Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 52:12,) which seems to be the preferable text, the reading is, the tenth day. Some, however, suppose that he came to the city, or commenced the burning of it, on the seventh day, and ended it on the tenth. Josephus states that the later Herodian temple was destroyed by Titus on the same day of the same month. Wars of the Jews, 2Ki 6:4 ; 2 Kings 6:8.
Nebuzaradan According to Rawlinson, the name means “Nebo has given offspring.”
Captain of the guard The word rendered guard, means slayers or executioners, ( שׂבחים ,) and the captain or chief of these is usually understood to be the royal officer who had especially in charge the execution of the death sentence. The margin here reads, chief marshal, and in Jeremiah 52:12, chief of the executioners, or slaughter men, who stood before the king of Babylon. He seems to have been the king’s principal military officer.
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