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Verse 2 Chronicles 36:23. _THE LORD HIS GOD_ BE _WITH HIM_] "Let the
WORD of the Lord be his helper, and let him go up." - _Targum_. See
the notes on the beginning of Ezra. Ezra 1:1.
THUS ends the h...
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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...
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GOD OF HEAVEN. First occurrence of this expression. Now used because
His People was _Lo Ammi_ (= "not My People"), and He (Jehovah) had
withdrawn from their midst. It is the title peculiar to the time...
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_All the kingdoms of the earth_ The king of Babylon bore the title of
"king of the four quarters of the world." Cyrus succeeded to this
title on his conquest of Babylon.
_God of heaven_ R.V. THE GOD...
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23. THE EDICT OF CYRUS (2 Chronicles 36:22-23)
TEXT
2 Chronicles 36:22. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished, Jehovah...
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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...
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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...
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כֹּה ־אָמַ֞ר כֹּ֣ורֶשׁ ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ
פָּרַ֗ס כָּל...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath
the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (n) charged me to build
him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there]...
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_The Lord, ( Jehova.) In Esdras we find yehi, "Let," his God. H. ---
Up. The sentence is completed in the following book, which makes it
probable that these verses are here inserted improperly, by som...
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We have made a long stride in history from the close of the last verse
to the beginning of this: no less than 70 years are at once leaped
over. To fill up this chasm the Reader must look into the writ...
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REFLECTIONS
PAUSE, Reader! and before you close the book of the Chronicles, which
contains a faithful register of events both of men and things, think
what desolation sin hath introduced into the circ...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 36:22....
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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD
stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a...
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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...
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Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath
the Lord God of heaven given me; and He hath charged me to build Him
an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. This had been reveal...
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Zedekiah's Reign and the end of Judah...
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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...
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22,23 God had promised the restoring of the captives, and the
rebuilding of Jerusalem, at the end of seventy years; and that time to
favour Zion, that set time, came at last. Though God's church be c...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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2 Chronicles 36:23
I. The Israelites were to build a material temple.
II. Though we may best seek God in His house, we may find Him
everywhere.
III. God's truest temple is the upright heart and pur...
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2 Chronicles 36:22
I. The name of Cyrus, the point of the compass indicative of his
birthplace, and the direction of his march upon Babylon are distinctly
foretold.
II. Isaiah describes with remarkab...
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CONTENTS: Reign and dethronement of Jehoahaz. Final deportation.
Captivity of Judah in Babylon.
CHARACTERS: God, Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin, Jehoikim, Nebuchadnezzar,
Zedekiah, Cyrus, Eliakim, Necho.
CONC...
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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...
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_Now, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persta._
CYRUS: THE DIVINELY-DIRECTED DELIVERER
I. God stirred up cyrus to do a great and necessary work.
II. Cyrus was a fitting instrument for the great...
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2 CHRONICLES 36:22 Restoration. From Ezra 1:1. Israel’s history has
resumed through God’s gracious initiative. TO BUILD HIM A HOUSE. The
words of Cyrus
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 22:16; 1 Chronicles 29:5; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:37;...