Jeremiah 52:25

²⁵ He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the men of war: and seven men of them that were near the king's person, that were found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who exercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 118

118. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 52

1-7 After the Jewish church has been wholly devastated in respect to all truths and goods by traditions or by reasonings from falsities, (3)

8-11 the church is destroyed, until nothing of it is left remaining. (3)

12-23 The destruction of all things of the church in general and in particular is described. (3)

24-27 They can no longer be taught from the Word. (3, 11)

28-30 Their quality. (11)

31-34 Beginning of the establishment of the church. (11)

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