Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three (a) months in Jerusalem. (a) Three months after the death of Josiah, Necho came to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the prophets forewarned would come on Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an (b) hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. (b) To pay this as a yearly tribute.... [ Continue Reading ]
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] (c) evil in the sight of the LORD his God. (c) Because he and the people did not turn to God by his first plague, he brought a new one on him, and at length rooted... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and (d) 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. (d) He means superstitious marks which were found on his body when he... [ Continue Reading ]
Jehoiachin [was] (e) 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. (e) That is, he began his reign at eight years old, and reigned ten years when his father was alive, and after his father's... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, (f) rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: (f) By this phrase the scripture means often and diligently as in (Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 25:3; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 32:33).... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (g) remedy. (g) Till God could no longer allow their sins, but must punish them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword (h) in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he (i) gave [them] all into his hand. (h) Where they fled, thinking to have bee... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (k) Persia: (k) When Gyrus king of Persia had made the Babylonians subject.... [ Continue Reading ]
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the (l) 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. (l) Who threatened the vengeance of God and 70 years captivity, which he called the sabbaths or rest of the l... [ Continue Reading ]
Now in the (m) 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, (m) In the firs... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (n) 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. (n) God had so fore... [ Continue Reading ]