Rashi on the Former Prophets

In the ninth year of his reign. Of Tzidkiyohu.
Siege towers. [Targum Yonoson] rendered כרקום [=works of siege].

By way of the gate between the two walls. A cave went from his house until the Plains of Yericho, and he fled through the cave. The Holy One, Blessed Is He, ordained a deer walking on the roof of the cave. and the Kasdim pursued the deer, and when they reached the cave's entrance in the Plains of Yericho, they saw him and captured him. This is what [Scripture] states, ”And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare.”

And called him to account. He debated with him concerning the oath.

And all the houses of the dignitaries. [This includes] synagogues wherein Torah and prayer are aggrandized, and the houses of the princes.

And the defectors. [Those] who obeyed Nevuchadnetzar and went out to him from the city, as in, “When he went to Tziklag, [members] of Menashe defected to him, etc.”

And farmers. Diggers of the earth, an expression of wine vats [=יקבים] which are diggings in the ground.

The height of the crown was three amohs. And in the beginning of the Book [of Melochim] it states, ”five amohs [high].” I reconciled the verses there. high but its two lower amohs are not counted because the column was inserted into the crown two amohs deep and it served as a base for the crown.
And a netting. (Coife, in O.F.) a type of hat.
Had the same. Pomegranates.

The scribe of the general of the army. Who knew the number of each city, how many men it enlists into the army.

All the officers of the armies. Who had left the city to hide in the strongholds, boulders, rocks and forests.

Evil Merodach … elevated. For Nevuchadnetzar died, and Evil Merodach reigned in his place.
On the twenty-seventh day of the month. But in Yirmiyohu it states, “On the twenty-fifth.” Rather, on the twenty-fifth Nevuchadnetzar died and he was buried on the twenty-sixth. On the twenty-seventh, Evil Merodach removed him from his grave and dragged him about, in order to nullify his decrees, as it is stated in Yeshayohu, ”and you have been cast out of your grave like a despised sapling, etc.”

He spoke kindly with him. Words of consolation.