To fulfil threescore and ten years] If the period of 70 years is reckoned from the time when Jeremiah's prophecy was uttered (Jehoiakim's 4th year, 605 b.c.) till the return of the Jews to their own land in 536, the prediction (for which see Jeremiah 25:11; Jeremiah 29:10) was almost exactly fulfilled. Between the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586 and the Return just 50 years elapsed.
Verse 2 Chronicles 36:21. _TO FULFILL THE WORD OF THE LORD_] See Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 26:6;...
See the marginal references. The 70 years of desolation prophesied by Jeremiah, commenced in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1, Jeremiah 25:12; compare Daniel 1:1), or 605 B.C.; and should t...
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...
FULFIL. FULFIL. At beginning and end of verse in Hebrew Note the emphasis by the Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis._ App-6. JEREMIAH. Compare Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 29:10. as long a
_by the mouth of Jeremiah_ Cp. Jeremiah 25:11; Jeremiah 29:10. _until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths_ Cp. Leviticus 25:1-7;...
AS LONG AS SHE LAY DESOLATE, SHE KEPT SABBATH, &C.— God had commanded them to let their land rest every seventh year; and because the Jews had violated this, as well as other precepts, God gave their...
22. JERUSALEM OVERTHROWN (2 Chronicles 36:18-21) TEXT 2 Chronicles 36:18. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the...
_TO FULFIL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH, UNTIL THE LAND HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS: FOR AS LONG AS SHE LAY DESOLATE SHE KEPT SABBATH, TO FULFIL THREESCORE AND TEN YEARS._ Until the land...
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...
TO FULFIL. — _lĕmalûth_ (an Aramaised form). THE WORD... JEREMIAH. — The seventy years of Babylonian exile are predicted in Jeremiah 25:11. (Comp. also Jeremiah 29:10 : “Thus saith the Lord, After se...
לְ מַלֹּ֤אות דְּבַר ־יְהוָה֙ בְּ פִ֣י יִרְמְי
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...
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the (l) mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. (l) Who t...
Sabbaths, every seventh year, Lev. xxv. 2., and xxvi. 43., and Jeremias xxv. 11., and xxix. 10. --- Expired: not that the earth was quite neglected, all that time, from the third year of Joakim, the y...
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 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...
TO FULFIL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH,.... That is, the Jews were so long servants in Babylon, as in the preceding verse, to accomplish Jeremiah's prophecy of it, 2 Chronicles 25:12...
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. Ver. 21. _To...
_Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths_ “God had commanded them to let their land rest every seventh year; and because the Jews had violated this, as well as other precepts, God gave their land a lo...
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...
Zedekiah's Reign and the end of Judah...
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; the Sabbatic years, as seasons of rest for all classes of people and for the land itself having been...
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...
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...
HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS, i.e. had rested from the labour of the husbandmen in ploughing and harrowing it, &c., the people that should have managed it being destroyed. Of the phrase, SEE POOLE ON "LEV...
2 Chronicles 36:21 fulfill H4390 (H8763) word H1697 LORD H3068 mouth H6310 Jeremiah H3414 land H776 enjoyed...
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...
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 36:19 THEY BURNED THE HOUSE OF GOD. Compare 2 Kings 25:8. The land lying DESOLATE w
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...
Daniel 9:2; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 26:6; Jeremiah 26:
Sabbaths — Had rested from the labour of the husbandman in plowing and harrowing it; the people that should have managed it being destroyed. Many a time had they ploughed and sowed their land in the s...