mocked the messengers Jeremiah was imprisoned, beaten, and threatened with death, Urijah (Jeremiah 26:20-23) was put to death. Of the fate of Habakkuk (who also lived during the Chaldean period, Habakkuk 1:6) nothing is known.
misused his prophets R.V. scoffed at his prophets.
MISUSED HIS PROPHETS - Rather, “scoffed at his prophets.” The allusion is to verbal mockery, not to persecution....
IV. THE CAPTIVITY AND THE EPILOGUE CHAPTER 36:15-23 _ 1. The captivity (2 Chronicles 36:15)_ 2. The epilogue (2 Chronicles 36:22) In infinite patience the Lord still waited for the return of His pe...
THEY MOCKED. they kept mocking. Compare Matthew 23:37. Especially Urijah (Jeremiah 26:20) and Jeremiah 37 and Jeremiah 38. GOD. Hebrew
DISCOURSE: 432 FORBEARANCE OF GOD BROUGHT TO A CLOSE 2 Chronicles 36:15. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on...
21. THE REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH (2 Chronicles 36:11-17) TEXT 2 Chronicles 36:11. Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: 12. and he did that...
_BUT THEY MOCKED THE MESSENGERS OF GOD, AND DESPISED HIS WORDS, AND MISUSED HIS PROPHETS, UNTIL THE WRATH OF THE LORD AROSE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE, TILL THERE WAS NO REMEDY._ No JFB commentary on these v...
MOCKED THE MESSENGERS] In the reign of Jehoiakim the prophet Urijah was put to death (Jeremiah 26:20), and in the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah underwent much persecution (Jeremiah 37, 38)....
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM This is a brief record of the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, and of the destruction of Jerusalem. The first twenty vv. of this chapter are abbreviated...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 36 JEHOAHAZ – 2 CHRONICLES 36:1-4 V1 The people in Judah chose Josiah’s...
BUT THEY MOCKED. — _And they were mocking, mal’îbîm_; only here (an Aramaism). MISUSED. — _Mitta’te’îm,_ only here. _Derided,_ strictly, _stammered._ Another form of this verb occurs in Genesis 27:12....
וַ יִּֽהְי֤וּ מַלְעִבִים֙ בְּ מַלְאֲכֵ֣י הָ א
THE LAST KINGS OF JUDAH 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 35:1; 2 Chronicles 36:1 WHATEVER influence Manasseh's reformation exercised over his people generally, the taint of idolatry was
DEFEAT AND EXILE 2 Chronicles 36:11 It is expressly stated in Ezekiel 17:13 that Nebuchadnezzar administered to Zedekiah an oath of fealty in the presence of Jehovah. Hence by his rebellion, he not o...
This is the record of the final movements in the downward course of Judah. They are graphically given. First Jehoahaz reigned for three months, and was deposed by the king of Egypt. Jehoiakim succeede...
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no (g) remedy. (g) Till God could no lo...
_Remedy. All attempts to convert them proved in vain; (T.) and God, perceiving that they even despised his calls, became inexorable. C._...
Here we arrive to the sad page of Judah's history. To enter into a full detail of this history of the church we must connect with it the writings of the prophet Jeremiah. The character of Zedekiah, an...
_THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH_ ‘The wrath of the Lord arose against His people,’ etc. 2 Chronicles 36:16 At last the hour of retribution had struck. Like the northern kingdom of Israel, nearly one hundre...
_DIVINE PATIENCE EXHAUSTED_ ‘Till there was no remedy.’ 2 Chronicles 36:16 These words contain three facts, and each one is of the greatest importance. (1) That there was—at least, at one time—a re...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 THROUGH 36. Manasseh, his son, who gave himself up to iniquity in spite of the warnings of the prophets, brought desolation and ruin upon himself and after...
BUT THEY MOCKED THE MESSENGERS OF GOD, AND DESPISED HIS WORDS,.... Which was the treatment Jeremiah and Ezekiel frequently met with: AND MISUSED HIS PROPHETS; imprisoned them, as Micaiah and Jeremiah...
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy. Ver. 16. _But they mocked th...
_But they mocked the messengers of God_ Of which see instances Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 20:49. _Misused his prophets_ Imprisoning and persecuting them as they did Jeremiah; or, _seduced themselves by his...
1 Iehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharaoh, and caried into Egypt. 5 Iehoiakim raigning ill, is caried bound into Babylon. 9 Iehoiachin succeeding reigneth ill, and is brought into Babylon. 11 Ze...
But they mocked the messengers of God, as in the case of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 5:12, AND DESPISED HIS WORDS, AND MISUSED HIS PROPHETS, Jeremiah 32:3, UNTIL THE WRATH OF THE LORD AROSE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE,...
Zedekiah's Reign and the end of Judah...
JEHOIAKIM'S REIGN AND CAPTIVITY (vv.5-8) Jehoiakim was evidently older than Jehoahaz for he was 25 when he began to reign (cf.v.2). He reigned 11 years in Judah, but he also dishonoured the memory o...
REMEDY: _ Heb._ healing...
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 towar...
THEY MOCKED THE MESSENGERS OF GOD; of which see instances, EZEKIEL 11:3, EZEKIEL 20:49. MISUSED HIS PROPHETS; imprisoning and persecuting them, as they did Jeremiah. Or, _seduced themselves by his pro...
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2 Chronicles 36:15 I. Prophecy is as old as the Hebrew nation itself, and indeed far older. The life of the nation begins with the age of Moses, but Moses in his writings leads us back to the fountain...
2 Chronicles 36:16 These words contain three facts, and each one is of the greatest importance. (1) That there was at least, at one time a remedy. (2) That the remedy went on, and might have been use...
CONTENTS: Reign and dethronement of Jehoahaz. Final deportation. Captivity of Judah in Babylon. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin, Jehoikim, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah, Cyrus, Eliakim, Necho. CONC...
2 Chronicles 36:2. _Jehoahaz the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem._ Necho summoned him to Riblah, put him in irons, and made his elder brother Eliakim king in his room, and changed his name to...
_And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by is me messengers, rising up betimes._ PRESUMPTUOUS REBELLION I. We see here continued rebellion, which suggests-- 1. That habits are easily commen...
2 CHRONICLES 36:1 The Last Four Kings. Compare 2 Kings 23:31. The Chronicler summarizes the reigns of Judah’s last four kings. Because they abandon the covenant after Josiah’s death, all four will go...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 36:11 The reign of ZEDEKIAH (597–586 B.C.) ended in rebellion, a siege of almost two years, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the deportation of its le...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter gives the reigns of Jehoahaz (2 Chronicles 36:1), of Jehoiakim (2 Chronicles 36:5), of Jehoiachin (2 Chronicles 36:9), and of Zedekiah ...
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 t...
Now at his death, Jehoahaz began to reign. He was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for only three months in Jerusalem. And the king of Egypt came up, conquered him, and to...
1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 30:10; Acts 13:41; Acts 17:32;...
No remedy — Because the people would not repent, and God would not pardon them....