2Ch 36 | TSK | STEP | Jehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharaoh, and carried into Egypt. Jehoiakim reigning ill, is carried bound into Babylon. Jehoiachin succeeding, reigns ill, and is brought into Babylon. Zedekiah succeeding, reigns ill, despises the prophets, and rebels against Nebuchadnezzar. Jerusalem, for the sins of the priests and the people, is wholly destroyed. The proclamation of Cyrus. the people. Jehoahaz.

A.M. 3405. B.C. 599. eight years old.The Syriac, Arabic, and the parallel place, (on which see the Note,) have "eighteen years;" which, as Scaliger observes, is no doubt the genuine reading.

2Ki 24:8,9

when the year was expired. Heb. at the return of the year.king Nebuchadnezzar.

2Ki 24:10-17; 25:27-30; Jer 29:2; Eze 1:2

goodly vessels. Heb. vessels of desire.

7; Jer 27:18-22; Da 1:1,2; 5:2,23

Zedekiah.

2Ki 24:17

Mattaniah his father's brother.

1Ch 3:15,16; Jer 37:1

A.M. 3405-3416. B.C. 599-588. one and twenty.

2Ki 24:18-20; Jer 52:1-3

humbled.

32:26; 33:12,19,23; Ex 10:3; Da 5:22,23; Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:6

before Jeremiah.

Jer 21:1-10; 27:12-22; 28:1-17; 34:2-22; 37:2-21; 38:14-28

the mouth.

35:22

rebelled.

2Ki 24:20; Jer 52:2,3; Eze 17:11-20

who had.

Jos 9:15,19,20; 2Sa 21:2

stiffened.

2Ki 17:4; Ne 9:16,17; Isa 48:4

hardened.

Ex 8:15,32; 9:17; Ne 9:29; Ro 2:4,5; Heb 3:8,13

all the chief.

2Ki 16:10-16; Ezr 9:7; Jer 5:5; 37:13-15; 38:4; Eze 22:6,26-28

Da 9:6,8; Mic 3:1-4,9-11; 7:2; Zep 3:3,4

very much.

28:3; 33:9

polluted.

33:4-7; Eze 8:5-16

the Lord.

24:18-21; 33:10; 2Ki 17:13; Jer 25:3,4; 26:5; 35:15; 44:4,5

his messengers. Heb. the hand of his messengers. betimes.i.e., continually and carefully. because.

Jud 10:16; 2Ki 13:23; Ho 11:8; Lu 19:41-44

mocked.

30:10; Ps 35:16; Isa 28:22; Jer 5:12,13; 20:7; Lu 18:32; 22:63,64

Lu 23:11,36; Ac 2:13; 17:32; Heb 11:36

despised.

Pr 1:24-30; Lu 16:14; Ac 13:41; 1Th 4:8

misused.

Jer 32:3; 38:6; Mt 5:12; 21:33-41; Ac 7:52

the wrath.

Ps 74:1; 79:1-5

till.

Pr 6:15; 29:1

remedy. Heb. healing.

he brought.

33:11; De 28:49; 2Ki 24:2,3; Ezr 9:7; Jer 15:8; 32:42; 40:3; Da 9:14

the king.

2Ki 25:1-30; Jer 39:1-18; 52:1-34

who slew.

Le 26:14-46; De 28:15-68; 29:18-28; 30:18; 31:16-18; 32:15-28

Ps 74:20; 79:2,3; Jer 15:9; 18:21; La 2:21,22

in the house.

24:21; La 2:20; Eze 9:5-7; Lu 13:1,2

no compassion.

De 28:50; Ps 74:20

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. all the vessels.

7,10; 2Ki 25:13-17; Jer 27:18-22; 52:17-23; Da 5:3

treasures.

2Ki 20:13-17; Isa 39:6; Zec 1:6

they burnt.

2Ki 25:9; Ps 74:4-8; 79:1,7; Isa 64:10,11; Jer 7:4,14; 52:13

La 4:1; Mic 3:12; Lu 21:6

brake down.

2Ki 25:10,11; Jer 52:14,15

A.M. 3416-3468. B.C. 588-536. And them that had escapedfrom. Heb. And the remainder from. they were servants.

De 28:47,48; Jer 27:7

until the reign.

22; Ezr 1:1-11

To fulfil.

Jer 25:9,12; 26:6,7; 27:12,13; 29:10; Da 9:2; Zec 1:4-6

until the land.

Le 25:4-6; 26:34,35,43; Zec 1:12

A.M. 3468. B.C. 536.This verse and the next have a double aspect. They look back to the prophecy of Jeremiah, and show how that was accomplished; and they look forward to the history of Ezra, which begins with a repetition of these two last verses.

in the first.

Ezr 1:1-3

Cyrus.

Isa 44:28; Da 10:1

that the word.

21; Jer 25:12,14; 29:10; 32:42-44; 33:10-14; Heb 10:23

the Lord stirred.

21:16; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 11:14,23; 1Ch 5:26; Ezr 1:5

Isa 13:3-5,17,18; 44:28; 45:1-5; Hag 1:14

a proclamation.

24:9; 30:5

All the kingdoms.

Ps 75:5-7; Da 2:21,37; 4:35; 5:18,23

he hath charged.

Isa 44:26-28

Who is there.

1Ch 22:16; 29:5; Ezr 7:13; Zec 2:6,7; Ro 8:31