2 Re 25:19

La Riveduta Bibbia

e i tre custodi della soglia, e prese nella città un eunuco che comandava la gente di guerra, cinque uomini di fra i consiglieri intimi del re che furon trovati nella città, il segretario del capo dell’esercito che arrolava il popolo del paese, e sessanta privati che furono anch’essi trovati nella città.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Dalla citt egli prese anche un eunuco che comandava gli uomini di guerra, cinque uomini fra i consiglieri personali del re che furono trovati in citt il segretario del capo dellesercito che arruolava il popolo del paese, e sessanta uomini del popolo del paese che furono trovati in citt.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Prese eziandio, e menò via dalla città un eunuco, ch’era commissario della gente di guerra, e cinque uomini de’ famigliari del re, che furono ritrovati nella città, e il principale scrivano di guerra, che faceva le rassegne degli eserciti del popolo del paese, e sessant’uomini principali del popolo del paese, che furono ritrovati nella città.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

officer: or, eunuch.

were in the king's presence: Heb. saw the king's face, Esther 1:14

principal: or, scribe of the captain of the host

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 52:25 - an eunuch Ezekiel 11:10 - fall Zephaniah 1:8 - the princes

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of the city - This clause shows that the five persons mentioned in 2 Kings 25:18 were taken out of the temple.

Five men - Or, “seven men,” according to Jeremiah 52:25. It is impossible to say which of the two numbers is correct.

Of them that were in the king’s presence - See the margin. A mode of speech arising from the custom of Eastern rulers to withdraw themselves as much as possible from the view of their subjects.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 25:19. And five men of them that were in the king's presence — These were principal counsellors, and confidential officers.

In Jeremiah 52:25, it is said he took seven men who were near the king's person, and the same number is found in the Arabic in this place; and the Chaldee has no less than fifty men; but in Jeremiah this, as well as all the rest of the versions, reads seven. Probably they were no more than five at first, or, perhaps Jeremiah reckoned with the five the officer that was set over the men of war, and the principal scribe of the host mentioned here, as two with the five; and thus made seven in the whole.