2 Chronicles 36:21 - Exposition

The word of the Lord. Note marginal references ( Jeremiah 25:9-12 ; Jeremiah 29:10 ). The three score and ten years of desolateness may probably best be dated from Nebuchadnezzar's first taking of Jerusalem, b.c. 606-5. Although this date does not tally exactly with the b.c. 538 of Cyrus's conquest of Babylon, yet the discrepancy is easily explained on more than one sufficiently natural supposition ( e.g. that Cyrus's reign was not exactly synchronous in the beginning of it with his conquest of Babylon, etc.). Enjoyed her sabbaths (see Le 26:34, 35, 43-46).