2 Chronicles 36:20-23 NIV

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 36:20

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 36:21

To fulfill the word of the Lord - See Jeremiah 25:9 , Jeremiah 25:12 ; Jeremiah 26:6 , Jeremiah 26:7 ; Jeremiah 29:12 . For the miserable death of Zedekiah, see 2 Kings 25:4 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 36:22

Now in the first year of Cyrus - This and the following verse are supposed to have been written by mistake from the book of Ezra, which begins in the same way. The book of the Chronicles, properly speaking, does close with the twenty-first verse, as then the Babylonish captivity commences, and these two verses speak of the transactions of a period seventy years after. This was in the first year of the reign of Cyrus over the empire of the East which is reckoned to be A.M. 3468.... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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. Thus ends the history of a people the most fickle, the most ungrateful, and perhaps on the whole the most sinful, that ever existed on the face of the earth. But what a display does all this give of the power, justice, mercy, and long-suffering of the Lord! There was no people like this people, and no God like their God. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:1-23

This chapter, then, contains, first, very brief accounts of the four reigns of Jehoahaz ( 2 Chronicles 36:1-4 ), Eliakim or Jehoiakim ( 2 Chronicles 36:4-8 ), Jehoiachin ( 2 Chronicles 36:9 , 2 Chronicles 36:10 ), and Zedekiah ( 2 Chronicles 36:10-13 ); next, general remarks on the iniquity that heralded the destruction of the nation and the punishment of it by the Chaldean captivity ( 2 Chronicles 36:14-17 ); thirdly, the methods of that destruction and captivity ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:1-23

The final indictment, sentence, and execution of it. It is in 2 Chronicles 36:11-21 of this chapter that we are given to read the final summary of, first, the folly and sin of Judah, her king, princes, and people; and second, the just displeasure and necessary punishment of Jehovah after an unparalleled forbearance. The historic incidents of the four reigns which occupy this chapter abound in pathetic, tragic interest. The account of them given in the parallel (2Ki 23:31-25:30) is... 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 36:20

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 36:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 36:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 36:23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 36:1-23

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