2 Chronicles 36:10 - Exposition

When the year was expired ; i.e. at the beginning of the new year, in spring ( 2 Chronicles 24:23 ). It appears, from 2 Kings 25:27-30 , that the captivity of Jehoia-chin, which thus began, lasted thirty-seven years, till b.c. 561, past the end of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and that he was thenceforward kindly treated by Evil-Merodach. Compare particularly with this verse the parallel in its 2 Kings 25:10-16 . Zedekiah his brother ; i.e. not adopting the very generic usage of the terms of relationship, so common in Old Testament language, his uncle . His mother ( Hamutal, 2 Kings 25:18 of parallel) was the same with the mother of Jehoahaz. Ten years old evidently when Jehoiakim began his reign, he must have been thirteen years younger than his whole brother Je-hoahaz. Zedekiah's name was before Mat-taniah. The account of Zedekiah in the parallel (which see) is very much more full.