SINS OF THE RULING CLASSES WHICH BROUGHT DOWN THE JUDGMENT OF GOD (2 Chronicles 36:14). (Comp. with this passage 2 Kings 17:7.)

(14) The chiefs.The princes.

Transgressed very much.Committed manifold unfaithfulness.

After all the abominations ... — See Ezekiel 8:5; where “the princes of the priests and the people” are specially singled out in 2 Chronicles 36:11; 2 Chronicles 36:16. The twenty-five men of the latter verse are the High Priest and the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests. (Comp. also Jeremiah 32:32, sea).

His Messengers. — The prophets (2 Kings 17:13).

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