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    2 Chronicles 36

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    The land receives its Sabbath only after the house of God is burned, Jerusalem’s wall is broken, and the survivors have been carried away. It is a remarkably severe sort of holiday, with the population elsewhere and the city in ashes.

    Kings in remarkably short supplyvv. 1–10

    The people of the land begin by making Jehoahaz king in Jerusalem, but Egypt’s king removes him after three months and sends him to Egypt. Neco installs his brother Eliakim, changes his name to Jehoiakim without the chapter offering a reason, and then Jehoiakim reigns for eleven years, doing evil and eventually being bound in bronze by Nebuchadnezzar. His son Jehoiachin succeeds him, with a reign measured out in the wonderfully exact phrase “three months and ten days”; then Nebuchadnezzar summons him to Babylon and places Zedekiah over Judah and Jerusalem.

    The long refusal and the long desolationvv. 11–21

    Zedekiah reigns eleven years and refuses to humble himself before Jeremiah. He rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, hardens his heart, and stands among leaders and people who defile the house of the LORD. Messengers come again and again, but their words are mocked until the king of the Chaldeans arrives: young and old alike are put to the sword, the treasures are carried to Babylon, the house of God is burned, and Jerusalem’s wall is broken down. The survivors go into exile, and only then does the land enjoy its Sabbath rest through the seventy years of desolation.

    A proclamation from Persiavv. 22–23

    In the first year of Cyrus, the LORD stirs the king of Persia to send a written proclamation through his kingdom. Cyrus says that the LORD, the God of heaven, has given him all the kingdoms of the earth and appointed him to build a house at Jerusalem in Judah. The chapter ends with an invitation to go up, which is a rather brisk change of scenery after the preceding fire, sword, and seventy years.

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    1. 2 Chr 36:1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

    2. 2 Chr 36:2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

    3. 2 Chr 36:3And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

    4. 2 Chr 36:4Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

    5. 2 Chr 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

    6. 2 Chr 36:6Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

    7. 2 Chr 36:7Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

    8. 2 Chr 36:8As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

    9. 2 Chr 36:9Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

    10. 2 Chr 36:10In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

    11. 2 Chr 36:11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

    12. 2 Chr 36:12And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.

    13. 2 Chr 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

    14. 2 Chr 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

    15. 2 Chr 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

    16. 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

    17. 2 Chr 36:17So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

    18. 2 Chr 36:18who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.

    19. 2 Chr 36:19Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

    20. 2 Chr 36:20Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

    21. 2 Chr 36:21So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

    22. 2 Chr 36:22In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

    23. 2 Chr 36:23“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

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    • 21Jeremiah 29:10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
    • 21Leviticus 26:34–35Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
    • 21Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
    • 21Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
    • 21Jeremiah 25:11–12And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
    • 21Leviticus 26:43For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
    • 21Leviticus 25:4–6But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
    • 22Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
    • 16Jeremiah 5:12–13They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
    • 22Ezra 1:1–3In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
    • 21Jeremiah 26:6–7then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
    • 21Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
    • 72 Kings 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
    • 10Jeremiah 37:1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
    • 15Jeremiah 7:13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
    • 15Jeremiah 35:15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

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