2 Chronicles 36:9-23
eighteen years old <08141 01121 08083> [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.
beginning .... year <08666 08141> [when the year was expired. Heb. at the return of the year. king Nebuchadnezzar.]
valuable items <03627 02532> [goodly vessels. Heb. vessels of desire.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
[Mattaniah his father's brother.]
twenty-one ............ eleven <06242 0259> [A.M. 3405-3416. B.C. 599-588. one and twenty.]
humble <03665> [humbled.]
before Jeremiah <03414 06440> [before Jeremiah.]
spokesman <06310> [the mouth.]
rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
vow allegiance <07650> [who had.]
stubborn <07185> [stiffened.]
obstinate <0553> [hardened.]
leaders <08269> [all the chief.]
more <04604 07235> [very much.]
defiled <02930> [polluted.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
messengers <04397> [his messengers. Heb. the hand of his messengers. betimes. i.e., continually and carefully. because.]
mocked <03931> [mocked.]
despised <0959> [despised.]
ridiculed <08591> [misused.]
angry <02534> [the wrath.]
prevent his judgment <04832> [till.]
prevent his judgment <04832> [remedy. Heb. healing.]
brought <05927> [he brought.]
king <04428> [the king.]
slaughtered <02026> [who slew.]
temple <01004> [in the house.]
spare <02550> [no compassion.]
items <03627> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. all the vessels.]
treasuries ......... treasuries <0214> [treasures.]
burned down ............. burned <08313> [they burnt.]
tore <05422> [brake down.]
all who escaped ... sword <07611 02719> [A.M. 3416-3468. B.C. 588-536. And them that had escaped from. Heb. And the remainder from. they were servants.]
rose to power <04427> [until the reign.]
fulfill ..................... prophesied <04390> [To fulfil.]
land <0776> [until the land.]
[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.
first <0259> [in the first.]
Cyrus ................. Cyrus <03566> [Cyrus.]
promise <01697> [that the word.]
Lord moved <03068 05782> [the Lord stirred.]
<05674> [a proclamation.]
kingdoms <04467> [All the kingdoms.]
appointed <06485> [he hath charged.]
people <05971> [Who is there.]
