1-4 Jehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharaoh, and carried into Egypt 5-8 Jehoiakim reigning ill, is carried bound into Babylon 9,10 Jehoiachin succeeding, reigns ill, and is brought into Babylon 11-13 Zedekiah succeeding, reigns ill, despite the prophets, and rebels against Nebuchadnezzar 14-21 Jerusalem, for the sins of the priests and the people, is wholly destroyed 22,23 The proclamation of Cyrus

the people 2Ch 26:1 33:25 2Ki 23:30

Jehoahaz 2Ki 23:31-34 1Ch 3:15 Jer 22:11

2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

put him down [heb] removed him 2Ki 23:33

condemned [heb] mulcted

4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

made Eliakim 2Ki 23:34,35 1Ch 3:15

Necho Jer 22:10-12 Eze 19:3,4

5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Jehoiakim 2Ki 23:36,37 Jer 22:13-19 26:21-23 36:1,27-32

6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

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came up 2Ki 24:1,2,5,6,13 Eze 19:5-9 Da 1:1,2 Hab 1:5-10

fetters or chains

7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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the vessels 2Ki 24:13 Ezr 1:7-11 Jer 27:16-18 28:3 Da 5:2-4

8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

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written 2Ki 24:5,6

Jehoiachin 1Ch 3:16,17

Jeconiah Jer 22:24,28

Coniah Mt 1:11,12

Jechonias

9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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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

10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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 2Ch 36:7 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

11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

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one and twenty 2Ki 24:18-20 Jer 52:1-3

12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

humbled 2Ch 32:26 33:12,19,23 Ex 10:3 Da 5:22,23 Jas 4:10 1Pe 5:6

before Jeremiah Jer 21:1 27:12 28:1 34:2 37:2 38:14

the mouth 2Ch 35:22

13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

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

14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

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 2Ch 28:3 33:9

polluted 2Ch 33:4-7 Eze 8:5-16

15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

the Lord 2Ch 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

16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

mocked 2Ch 30:10 Ps 35:16 Isa 28:22 Jer 5:12,13 20:7 Lu 18:32 22:63,64 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

17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

he brought 2Ch 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 Jer 39:1 52:1

who slew Le 26:14 De 28:15 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 2Ch 24:21 La 2:20 Eze 9:5-7 Lu 13:1,2

no compassion De 28:50 Ps 74:20

18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

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all the vessels 2Ch 35:7,10 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

19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

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

20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

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And them that had escaped from [heb] and the remainder from
they were servants De 28:47,48 Jer 27:7

until the reign 2Ch 36:22 Ezr 1:1

21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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

22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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 2Ch 36:21 Jer 25:12,14 29:10 32:42-44 33:10-14 Heb 10:23

the Lord stirred 2Ch 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 2Ch 24:9 30:5

23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

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