Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 24:13

13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the kings house▪ and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

i. e. The most and choicest of them, by comparing this with ch. 25. 14, 15.

So he expresseth it, either First, Because these Vessels were made by the godly Kings of Iudah, instead of those which Solomon made, and so they go by his name; as the Ship of the Argona[illegible: 1+ letters]ts was still reputed the same Ship, though it was from time to time recruited with new materials, until nothing of the old was left. Or, Secondly, Because though the City and Temple had been risted more than once both by the Kings of Egypt and Israel, and by the wicked Kings of Iudah▪ yet these golden Vessels were preserved from them, either by the care of the Priests, who hid them out of the way; or by the clemency of the Conquerors, and the reverence which they bare to such sacred Instruments; or by the special providence of God, disposing their hearts to leave them. Or, if they had been taken away by any of these Kings, they might afterwards be recovered by the intreaty, or at the cost of the godly Kings of Iudah.

p Or rather, took away, as this word elsewhere signifies; or cut off, to wit, from the Temple. For why should they cut in pieces those Vessels which might conveniently be carried away? And that they were not cut in pieces, but reserved whole, is manifest from Ezra 1. 7. and Dan. 5. 2, 3.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 17. [illegible: 1 word].