2 Chronicles 36:15-21
1599 Geneva Bible
15 Therefore the Lord God of their fathers sent to them [a]by his messengers, [b]rising early and sending: for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation.
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, and till there was no [c]remedy.
17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword [d]in the house of their Sanctuary, and spared neither young man nor virgin, ancient, nor aged. God [e]gave all into his hand,
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 carried he to Babel.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof, to destroy all.
20 And they that were left by the sword, carried he away to Babel, and they were servants to him, and to his sons, until the kingdom of the [f]Persians had rule,
21 To fulfill the word of the Lord by the [g]mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her fill of her Sabbaths: for all the days that she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:15 Hebrew, by the hand of his.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15 By this phrase the Scripture meaneth, oftentimes, and diligently, as Jer. 11:7 and 25:3 and 26:5 and 32:33.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 Till God could no longer suffer their sins, but must needs punish them.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 Whither they fled, thinking to have been saved for the holiness thereof.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 Which is not because God approveth him, which yet is the minister of his justice, but because God would by his just judgment punish this people: for this king was led with ambition and vain glory, whereunto were joined fury and cruelty: therefore his work was condemnable, notwithstanding it was just and holy on God’s part, who used this wicked instrument to declare his justice.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 When Cyrus King of Persia had made the Babylonians subject.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 Who threatened the vengeance of God and seventy years captivity, which he calleth the Sabbaths or rest of the land, Jer. 25:11.
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