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The Reign and Captivity of Jehoiakim

5 aJehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did bevil in the sight of the Lord his God.  
6 aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in1 bronze fetters to bcarry him off to Babylon.  
7 aNebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.  
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. Then1 Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.  

The Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin

9 aJehoiachin was eight 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 At the turn of the year aKing Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, bwith the costly articles from the house of the Lord, and made cZedekiah, Jehoiakim’s brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.  

Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

11 aZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  
12 He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and adid not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.  
Commentaries:
Matthew Henry
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2 Chronicles 36:1-23

The destruction of Jerusalem. (1-21) The proclamation of Cyrus. (22,23)

Verses 1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.

Verses 22-23 God had promised the restoring of the captives, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, at the end of seventy years; and that time to favour Zion, that set time, came at last. Though God's church be cast down, it is not cast off; though his people be corrected, they are not abandoned; though thrown into the furnace, they are not lost there, nor left there any longer than till the dross be separated. Though God contend long, he will not contend always. Before we close the books of the Chronicles, which contain a faithful register of events, think what desolation sin introduced into the world, nay, even into the church of God. Let us tremble at what is here recorded, while in the character of some few gracious souls, we discover that the Lord left not himself without witness. And when we have looked at this faithful portrait of man by nature, let us contrast with it that same nature, when recovered by Almighty grace, through the justifying and soul-adorning righteousness of Christ our Saviour.


 
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