1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 52:1 | Sedecias *was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. 4 Kings 24:18.; 2 Paralipomenon 36:11. | Year of the World 3414, Year before Christ 590. Sedecias. This is purely historical, taken from 4 Kings 24:18., etc. Many doubt with reason the Jeremias inserted it, as he could not well be alive at the time when Joakim was honoured, ver. 31. If he had written both this and the Book of Kings, the variations which we here discover would not be seen. It seems, therefore, that Esdras or some other has inserted it, to explain the fall of Jerusalem and the lamentations; as a similar addition has been made to Isaias, Jeremias 36., etc. See Grotius. (Calmet) --- The history occurs more at large, Paralipomenon ultra.[last chapter?] (Worthington) |