2 Chronicles 36:10

_AND WHEN THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED, KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR SENT, AND BROUGHT HIM TO BABYLON, WITH THE GOODLY VESSELS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND MADE ZEDEKIAH HIS BROTHER KING OVER JUDAH AND JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear....

Verse 2 Chronicles 36:10. _MADE ZEDEKIAH - KING_] His name was at first _Mattaniah_, but the king of Babylon changed it to _Zedekiah_. See 2 Kings 24:17, and the notes there....

WHEN THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED - literally, as in the margin, i. e. at the return of the season for military expeditions. The expedition against Jehoiakim took place probably late in the autumn of one year, that against Jehoiachin early in the spring of the next. Strictly speaking, Zedekiah was uncle to Jehoiachin, being the youngest of the sons of Josiah (marginal note and reference). He was nearly of the same age with Jehoiachin, and is called here his “brother” (compare Genesis 14:14)....

EXPOSITION One short chapter now brings to a conclusion the work, in so many aspects remarkable, called 'The Chronicles.' And thirteen verses sum the contents of the four last pre-Captivity kings of the line of Judah. The words of Keil, in opening this last chapter in his commentary, are not unworthy of note. He says, "As the kingdom of Judah after Josiah's death advanced with swift steps to its destruction by the Chaldeans, so the author of the Chronicle goes quickly over the reigns of the last kings of Judah, who by their godless con-duet hastened the ruin of the kingdom. As to the four kings remaining, who reigned between Josiah's death and the destruction of Jerusalem, he gives, besides their ages at their respective accessions, only a short characterization of their conduct towards God, and a statement of the main events which, step by step, brought about the ruin of the king and th...

2 Chronicles 36:1...

9. THE FINAL DECLINE AND APOSTASY CHAPTER 36:1-14 _ 1. Jehoahaz's reign (2 Chronicles 36:1)_ 2. Jehoiachin's brief reign (2 Chronicles 36:8) 3. Zedekiah (2 Chronicles 36:11) As the complete record of these three final rulers is given in the second book of Kings, the annotations are made there. Nothing needs to be added. It was the final plunge before the awful judgment overtook Jerusalem and Judah. And there will be a final plunge into apostasy in connection with the professing Church, before the predicted judgment with the coming of our blessed Lord will end this present evil age and usher in His glorious kingdom....

SENT. N. B., not "came". BROUGHT HIM. had him brought. ZEDEKIAH. Originally Mattaniah. Compare 2 Kings 24:17, &c. HIS BROTHER: i.e. his next of kin. In this case his uncle (2 Kings 24:17; 1 Chronicles 3:15)....

(1Es 1:43-45; cp. 2 Kings 24:8-17). The Reign of Jehoiachin The account given in 2 Kin. contains much that is not given in Chron. and, in particular, many details of the first captivity of Judah....

ZEDEKIAH HIS BROTHER— _Zedekiah his uncle._ Houbigant. See 1 Chronicles 3:15....