Verses 1-7 - Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till famin rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy an Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffice to say, that the impiety and misery of the besieged were very great. A length the city was taken by storm. The king, his family, and his grea men escaped in the night, by secret passages. But those deceiv themselves who think to escapeGod's judgments, as much as those wh think to brave them. By what befellZedekiah, two prophecies, whic seemed to contradict each other, were both fulfilled. Jeremia prophesied that Zedekiah should be brought to Babylon, Jer 32:5; 34:3 Ezekiel, that he should not see Babylon, Eze 12:13. He was brough thither, but his eyes being put out, he did not see it.
