John Trapp on Jeremiah 52:1-34

CHAP. LII.

Ver. 1. ZEdekiah was one and twenty years old, &c.] For the expoſition of this whole chapter, ſee the Notes on 2 King. 24. & 25. 2 Chron. 36. & Jer. 39.1, 2, 3, &c. It is altogether hiſtorical, and ſet here fitly by Ezra or ſome other Prophet, as an Appendix to the foregoing Prophecy, and as a Preface to the Book of the Lamentations, which is nothing elſe but Jeremy's Elegy over their doleful Captivity: not over King Joſiah's death as Hierom would have it: nor yet is it that Book that Jehojakim cut and afterwards caſt into the fire. Jer. 36. as ſome of the Jew-doctors have doted. The Septuagint have ſet this title upon it, And it came to paſſe after that Iſrael was carried captive, A Lapide Prolog. in Thren. ex [illegible: 1 letter]etro à Figneiro. and Jeruſalem laid waſt, the Prophet Jeremy ſat weeping, and wailing and bitterly lamenting the caſe of his people. Thus they knit together this Chapter and the enſuing Lamentations: which the Jews alſo are ſtill ſaid to read together in their Synagogues, on the ninth day of the moneth Ab, which anſwereth to our July: becauſe that on that day, the City was taken and deſtroyed by the Chaldaeans, Jer. 52.7.