2 Kings 21:10-15
10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wipinga it, and turning it upside down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2 Kin. 21:10-15. It is evident by this, and many other passages of Scripture, that the first destruction of Jerusalem was principally for the sins of Manasseh and the wickedness that the people were guilty of in his reign (see 2 Kings 23:26; 2 Kings 23:27; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Kings 24:4, and Jeremiah 15:4); and yet the first captivity in Jehoiakim's time was not till about forty-four years after Manasseh's death, and the total destruction of Jerusalem in Zedekiah's time not till about fifty-five years after his death. Hence I would observe that it is no argument against the dreadful destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, its being an evident token of God's wrath against the people for their rejecting and crucifying Christ, that that destruction happened about forty years after Christ's crucifixion.