For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
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Gill's Exposition
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem,.... And had done so for some time; for the siege began in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Jer 52:4;…
Barnes' Notes
The prison - Or, the guard, a part of the king’s palace, probably where the royal guard had its quarters.
It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. God's judgments came gradually upon…
Cambridge Bible
the court of the guard not meaning the place where a guard, or body of men, were posted but "a part of the court surrounding the Palace railed off to guard prisoners in, whom it was not desired to…
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