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2 Chronicles
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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 22:112 Chronicles 26:12 Chronicles 33:25Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. See also: 2 Kings 23:33The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. See also: Jeremiah 22:10-12Ezekiel 19:3-41 Chronicles 3:15Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. See also: 2 Kings 23:36-37Jeremiah 26:1Jeremiah 22:13-19Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. See also: 2 Chronicles 33:11Daniel 1:1-2Ezekiel 19:5-9Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the LORD’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. See also: 2 Kings 24:13Jeremiah 28:3Jeremiah 27:16-18Now 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 place. See also: 2 Kings 24:5-61 Chronicles 3:16-17Matthew 1:11-12Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. See also: 2 Kings 24:8-17At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the LORD’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 37:12 Chronicles 36:7Jeremiah 27:18-22Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. See also: 2 Kings 24:18-20Jeremiah 52:1-3Jeremiah 27:1He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the LORD’s mouth. See also: 2 Chronicles 33:23Jeremiah 38:14-28Jeremiah 37:2-21He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. See also: Ezekiel 17:11-20Jeremiah 52:2-32 Chronicles 30:8Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the LORD’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. See also: Ezekiel 22:6Daniel 9:8Ezekiel 22:26-28The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place; See also: Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 25:3-4but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy. See also: Jeremiah 5:12-13Luke 22:63-642 Chronicles 30:10Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm. He gave them all into his hand. See also: Psalms 74:20Ezra 9:7Ezekiel 9:5-7All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the LORD’s house, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:72 Chronicles 36:10Zechariah 1:6They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels. See also: Psalms 79:1Jeremiah 7:4Lamentations 4:1He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, See also: Jeremiah 27:7Ezra 1:1-112 Kings 25:11to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. See also: Jeremiah 29:10Leviticus 26:34-35Jeremiah 25:11-12Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the LORD’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, See also: Jeremiah 25:12Ezra 1:1-3Jeremiah 29:10“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.’” See also: Daniel 2:37Zechariah 2:6-7Daniel 4:35
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 36:3
Ver. 3. Him. Joachaz had attempted to defend himself, and had been conducted prisoner to Reblatha. 4 K. xxiii. 33. and Ezec. xix. 4. He was now deposed in from, and a tribute laid upon the people. C.
↑ 32 Chronicles 36:4
Ver. 4. Brother. From the time of David, the son had always succeeded his father. W.
↑ 42 Chronicles 36:6
Ver. 6. Babylon, but sent him back soon after; (T.) unless he altered his first design, (D.) and slew him disgracefully at Jerusalem. Lyran. E. C. 4 K. xxiii. 5.
--- He allowed him to reign as a vassal other three years, but took Daniel, &c.
captives. The seventy years of Jeremias, (xxv. 11.) are to be dated from this event. A. 3402. Usher.
↑ 62 Chronicles 36:7
Ver. 7. The vessels. Heb. and Sept. "a part of the vessels;" probably the most precious, (v. 10) breaking the rest in pieces, as he left none behind, v. 18. ---
Temple of his God. Dan. i. 2.
↑ 72 Chronicles 36:8
Ver. 8. In him. The Jews explain this of the diabolical characters forbidden, Lev.
xix. 28.
Carthusian. R. Sal. &c. --- But it may simply denote the hidden sins of the king, which God will bring to light, or his rebellious conduct. Amama. Gen. xliv. 16.
C.
↑ 82 Chronicles 36:9
Ver. 9. Eight years old. He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when he was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he reigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 K.
xxiv. 8. Ch. --- He only enjoyed the throne three months and ten days. T. --- We must however observe, (H.) that the Alex. Sept. the Syr. and Arab. read here, eighteen. C. --- "It is, in my opinion, a pity that the translators have not mended such apparent errata of the scribe of the present Heb. out of 2 K. xxiv. 8, or out of Sept. or out of common sense." Wall. Kennicott. ---
These eight years may be dated from the captivity, and not from the king's birth. Usher. D.
↑ 92 Chronicles 36:10
Ver. 10. Year, in spring, when kings go out to war. C. --- Uncle. Sept. "brother of his father,"
which comes to the same sense, and was certainly the case. Heb. "his brother." Abraham indeed gives the title to his nephew. Gen. xiii. 8. C.
↑ 102 Chronicles 36:13
Ver. 13. By God, to be faithful. T. --- This enhances his crime. C.
↑ 132 Chronicles 36:15
Ver. 15. Early. Prot. "betimes, and sending: because," &c. H. --- Like a good master, God (T.) sent his servants to work at day-break, (H.) omitting nothing to induce them to return to him, that he might not be forced to punish them with severity. C.
↑ 152 Chronicles 36:16
Ver. 16. Remedy. All attempts to convert them proved in vain; (T.) and God, perceiving that they even despised his calls, became inexorable. C.
↑ 162 Chronicles 36:18
Ver. 18. Vessels. Only a few remained, to be restored by Cyrus, v. 19. C.
↑ 182 Chronicles 36:20
Ver. 20. Sons; Evilmerodac and Baltassar. --- Persia; Cyrus, who subdued the country.
↑ 202 Chronicles 36:21
Ver. 21. Sabbaths, every seventh year. Lev. xxv. 2. and xxvi. 43. Jer. xxv. 11. and xxix. 10. ---
Expired: not that the earth was quite neglected, all that time, from the third year of Joakim, A.M.
3398 till 3468. C. --- But it was almost: particularly after the murder of Godolias, (M.) the public worship was at a stand, &c. H. --- During this fifth age, the true religion subsisted invariable, not only in the kingdom of Juda, but also in that of Israel. See Worthington. H.
↑ 212 Chronicles 36:22
Ver. 22. First. Cyrus had ruled over Persia from A. 3444. He was now emperor of the east. A.
3468. C. --- These two verses are repeated by Esdras, which evinces that he was the author of this work also, (T.) adding them when he restored (W.) or revised (H.) the holy scriptures. W.
↑ 222 Chronicles 36:23
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 23. The Lord, ( Jehova. ) In Esdras we find yehi, "Let," his God. H. --- Up.
The sentence is completed in the following book, which makes it probable that these verses are here inserted improperly, by some transcriber. The book of Chronicles, though for many ages the last in the Heb. MSS. was, perhaps, once followed by Ezra, as in Camb. MS. 1. (Kennicott) and as it is now in the Protestant version, taken from the Heb. H.
↑ 23License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses