2 Kings 21:10-15

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.