2 Chronicles 36:21

2 Chronicles 36:21

19 ^aThen they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.

20 And ^athose who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, ^bwhere they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,

21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^aJeremiah, until the land ^bhad enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate ^cshe kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus

22 ^aNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^bJeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^cCyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

23 ^aThus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a¹ house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths—The return of every seventh was to be held as a sabbatic year, a season of rest to all classes, even to the land itself, which was to be fallow. This divine institution, however, was neglected—how soon and how long, appears from the prophecy of Moses (see on Leviticus 26:34), and of Jeremiah in this passage (see Jeremiah 25:9-12), which told that for divine retribution it was now to remain desolate seventy years. As the Assyrian conquerors usually colonized their conquered provinces, so remarkable a deviation in Palestine from their customary policy must be ascribed to the overruling providence of God.

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