Isaiæ 52:25

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

et de civitate tulit eunuchum unum, qui erat præpositus super viros bellatores: et septem viros de his qui videbant faciem regis, qui inventi sunt in civitate: et scribam principem militum, qui probabat tyrones: et sexaginta viros de populo terræ, qui inventi sunt in medio civitatis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et de civitate tulit eunuchum unum, qui erat pr�positus super viros bellatores : et septem viros de his qui videbant faciem regis, qui inventi sunt in civitate : et scribam principem militum, qui probabat tyrones : et sexaginta viros de populo terr�, qui inventi sunt in medio civitatis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et de civitate tulit eunuchum unum, qui erat praepositus super viros bellatores, et septem viros de his, qui videbant faciem regis, qui inventi sunt in civitate, et scribam principis militum, qui ex populo terrae probabat tirones, et sexaginta viros de populo terrae, qui inventi sunt in medio civitatis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an eunuch: 2 Kings 25:19

were near the king's person: Heb. saw the face of the king, Esther 1:14, Matthew 18:10

principal scribe of the host: or, scribe of the captain of the host

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 36:10 - the scribe Lamentations 5:12 - General Ezekiel 19:1 - the princes Habakkuk 1:7 - their judgment

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war,.... The master-master-general of the army:

and seven men of them which were near the king's person which were found in the city; or, "saw the face of the king": or rather, "made to see [his] face" h; these were ministers of state, who were always at court, and assisted in councils of state, and introduced persons into the king's presence; in 2 Kings 25:19; they are said to be but "five"; but Josephus i has seven, as here; perhaps two of them were of less note, and so not reckoned, as Jarchi observes: some will have it, that the two scribes of the judges are left out; but others, more probably, Jeremiah and Baruch, who were first taken, and afterwards dismissed:

and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; or the scribe of the prince of the army, as the Targum; the general's secretary:

and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city: persons of prime note, who, upon the invasion, betook themselves from the country to the city of Jerusalem with their effects, and to defend it. Josephus k calls them rulers or governors.

h מראי פני המלך "ex videntibus facies, [vel] faciem regis", Montanus, Piscator; "de videre facientibus facies regis", Schmidt. i Antiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 5. k Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An eunuch ... men of war - Or, who had charge of men of war. The King James Version makes him commander-in-chief; he was second in command, i. e., a lieutenant, possibly one among many others of equal rank.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 52:25. Seven men - that were near the king's person — These were privy counsellors.