2 Chronicles 36:1-11

1 Therefore the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and ordained him king for his father in Jerusalem. (And so the people of the land took Jehoahaz, Josiah's son, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.)

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

3 And when the king of Egypt had come to Jerusalem, he removed him, and he condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and in a talent of gold. (And when the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, he removed Jehoahaz, and made the people of the land pay him, the king of Egypt, tribute, or taxes, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.)

4 And he ordained for him Eliakim, his brother, (to be) king upon Judah and Jerusalem; and he turned his name (and he changed his name), and called him Jehoiakim. And he took that Jehoahaz (back) with himself, and he brought him into Egypt.

5 Jehoiakim was of five and twenty years, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and he did evil before the Lord his God.

6 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Chaldees (the king of the Chaldeans, that is, the king of Babylon), went up against this Jehoiakim, and he led him bound with chains into Babylon.

7 To which Babylon he translated also the vessels of the house of the Lord, and he set those in his temple. (And he also carried away the vessels of the House of the Lord, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.)

8 Soothly the residue of [the] words of Jehoiakim (And the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim), and of his abominations which he wrought, and which were found in him, be contained in the book of [the] kings of Israel and of Judah. And Jehoiachin, his son, reigned for him.

9 Jehoiachin was of eight years (Jehoiachin was eighteen years old), when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

10 And when the circle of the year was turned about, Nebuchadnezzar the king sent men, which also brought him into Babylon, when the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord were borne out together (And at the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent men to Jerusalem, who brought Jehoiachin back to Babylon, and the most precious vessels, from the House of the Lord, were brought back with him). And Nebuchadnezzar ordained Zedekiah, his father's brother, king upon Judah and Jerusalem.

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

2 Chronicles 36:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 36

This chapter records the reigns of the four kings of Judah, and the captivity of the Jews, the short reign of Jehoahaz, deposed by the king of Egypt, and his brother Eliakim or Jehoiakim set up in his room, 2Ch 36:1-4, the reign of Jehoiakim, who was bound and carried away by Nebuchadnezzar, 2Ch 36:5-8, the reign of Jehoiachin his son, who also in a short time was taken and carried to Babylon by the same king, 2Ch 36:9,10, the reign of Zedekiah, who also rebelled against the king of Babylon, and he and his people were taken and carried captive by him for his sins, which are here mentioned, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah, and where the Jews continued until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, 2Ch 36:11-21 and the chapter is concluded with the proclamation of Cyrus king of Persia, and with which also the next book begins, 2Ch 36:22,23.

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