2 Chronicles 36:8

_NEBUCHADNEZZAR ALSO CARRIED OF THE VESSELS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD TO BABYLON, AND PUT THEM IN HIS TEMPLE AT BABYLON._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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....

HIS ABOMINATIONS WHICH HE DID - See Jeremiah 7:9, Jeremiah 7:30; Jeremiah 19:3; Jeremiah 25:1 etc.; Jehoiakim appears to have restored all the idolatries which Josiah his father had swept away....

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....

FOUND IN HIM. found upon him. On this is grounded the belief that he was tattooed with idolatrous marks or signs forbidden by Leviticus 19:28. Compare Revelation 13:16; Revelation 13:17; Revelation 14:9; Revelation 14:11; Revelation 16:2; Revelation 19:20;...

(1Es 1:39-42; 2 Kings 23:35 to 2 Kings 24:7). The Reign of Jehoiakim 5. _in Jerusalem_ The Chronicler omits his mother's name (cp. 2 Chronicles 36:2, note) and also the statement that he raised the indemnity imposed by Neco by means of a poll-tax (2 Kings 23:35). _he did that which_was _evil_ Cp. 2 Kings 23:37; Jeremiah 22:13-18;...

AND HIS ABOMINATIONS, &C.— _And the images which he made, and his other performances._ Houbigant....

19. THE REIGN OF ELIAKIM (JEHOIAKIM) (2 Chronicles 36:4-8) TEXT 2 Chronicles 36:4. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. 5. Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God. 6. Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 7. Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 8. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, th