2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:11-21

We have here an account of the destruction of the kingdom of Judah and the city of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. Abraham, God's friend, was called out of that country, from Ur of the Chaldees, when God took him into covenant and communion with himself; and now his degenerate seed were carried into that country again, to signify that they had forfeited all that kindness wherewith they had been regarded for the father's sake, and the benefit of that covenant into which he was called; all was now... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

These last two verses of this book have a double aspect. 1. They look back to the prophecy of Jeremiah, and show how that was accomplished, 2 Chron. 36:22. God had, by him, promised the restoring of the captives and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, at the end of seventy years; and that time to favour Sion, that set time, came at last. After a long and dark night the day-spring from on high visited them. God will be found true to every word he has spoken. 2. They look forward to the history of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:15

And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers ,.... The prophets of the Lord, to admonish them of their idolatries, and to reprove them for them, to warn them of the wrath of God that would come upon them on that account, unless they repented and reformed; these were at the beginning of their apostasy, and were successively continued unto this time, as Ahijah, Elijah, and others, in the first times of it; Amos, Isaiah, and others, in the middle of it; and Jeremiah,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words ,.... Which was the treatment Jeremiah and Ezekiel frequently met with: and misused his prophets ; imprisoned them, as Micaiah and Jeremiah were: until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people ; which burned like fire in his breast, and broke out to the consumption of them: till there was no remedy ; or healing of them; there was no reclaiming or recovering of them, no bringing them to repentance, and no pardon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees ,.... Nebuchadnezzar; and though it was the rebellion of Zedekiah which was the cause and occasion of his coming against them, yet it was the Lord that moved him to it, and gave him success: who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of the sanctuary ; in the temple, where they took sanctuary, imagining that sacred place would protect them from the rage of the enemy, but it did not: and had no compassion on young man... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:18

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small ,.... All that were left; for some had been carried away in both the reigns preceding: and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes ; which became the spoil and booty of the soldiers: all these he brought to Babylon ; the vessels were laid up there, and restored when Cyrus took it; but the treasures were no doubt in part taken for his own use, and the rest divided in the army. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burnt the house of the Lord ,.... The temple; of which, and what follows in this verse; see Gill on Jeremiah 52:13 ; see Gill on Jeremiah 52:14 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:20

And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away captive ,.... The king of Babylon, or his general by his orders, excepting some poor persons left to till the land, see Jeremiah 52:15 , where they were servants to him and his sons ; his son Evilmerodach, and his grandson Belshazzar; see Gill on Jeremiah 27:7 , until the reign of the kingdom of Persia ; until that monarchy began, as it did upon the taking of Babylon by Cyrus king of Persia. This is the first place we meet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:21

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 . until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths ; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, Leviticus 25:4 , which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ,.... These two verses are the same with which the next book, the book of Ezra, begins, where they will be explained; and these two books, the one ending and the other beginning with the same words, is a strong presumption, that one and the same person, Ezra, is the writer of them both; or rather, as a learned F5 Dr. Kennicott's Dissert. 1. p. 492, &c.; writer conjectures, these two verses are added by some transcriber, who, having... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:11-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

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