2 Chronicles 36:10

2Ch 36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Ver. 10. And when the year was expired.] Heb., At the return of the year; that is, in the spring. {2Ki 24:10-11}

“ Namque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annum. ”

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2Ch 36:10. When the year was expired — Hebrew, At the return of the year. At the beginning of the next year, according to the sacred account of the Hebrews, at the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, as is elsewhere said, when Nebuchadnezzar, among others, went forth to settle and enlarge his conquests. His brother — Largely so called, for this was his uncle, or his father’s brother, being the son of Josiah.

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Or, uncle.

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Verse 10. Made Zedekiah - king] His name was at first Mattaniah, but the king of Babylon changed it to Zedekiah. See 2Kg 24:17, and the notes there.

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(10) And when the year was expired.—See margin. “At the return of the year” means in spring, when kings usually went forth to war. (2Sa_11:1; 1Ki_20:22.) Kings gives a full account of the siege and surrender of Jerusalem, and the deportation to Babylon of the king and all his princes and men of war, by “the servants of Nebuchadnezzar.”

With the goodly vessels.—2Ch_32:27. “Some of the vessels” had already been carried off (2Ch_36:7). (See 2Ki_24:13 and Jer_27:18-22.)

Zedekiah his brother.—Zedekiah was uncle of Jehoiachin, being a son of Josiah, and brother of Jehoiakim. Perhaps “brother” is equivalent to “kinsman” here, as elsewhere. (Comp. 1Ch_3:15, where Zedekiah appears as a son of Josiah; and 2Ki_24:17.) The versions read “his father’s brother”—a correction. Thenius thinks the word for “uncle” had become illegible in the MS. here used by the chronicler.

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10. when the year was expired] R.V. at the return of the year; cp. 2Sa_11:1 = 1Ch_20:1, “at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle,” R.V. This would be in the spring.

brought him to Babylon] It was not the king only, but also all the best of the people, “the princes, … men of valour, the craftsmen and the smiths” who went into captivity; 2Ki_24:14; Jer_24:1; Jer_24:5; Eze_17:12-14.

Zedekiah] A covenant-name like “Jehoiakim” (2Ch_36:4, note); it seems to mean “Righteousness of Jehovah”; cp. the significant title in Jer_23:6, “The Lord is our Righteousness.” Zedekiah’s original name was “Mattaniah”; 2Ki_24:17.

his brother] In 2 Kin. (more accurately) “his father’s brother”; cp. 1Ch_3:15-16, notes.

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When the year was expired - literally, as in the margin, i. e. at the return of the season for military expeditions. The expedition against Jehoiakim took place probably late in the autumn of one year, that against Jehoiachin early in the spring of the next.

Strictly speaking, Zedekiah was uncle to Jehoiachin, being the youngest of the sons of Josiah (marginal note and reference). He was nearly of the same age with Jehoiachin, and is called here his “brother” (compare Gen 14:14).

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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.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

When the year was expired, Heb. at the return of the year, i.e. at the beginning of the next year, according to the sacred account of the Hebrews, at the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, as is elsewhere said, when Nebuchadnezzar, among others, went forth to settle and enlarge his conquests.

Zedekiah his brother; largely so called, for this was his uncle, or his father’s brother, as he is called, 2Ki 24:17, being the son of Josiah. See 1Ch 3:15; Jer 1:3.

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When the year was expired; i.e. at the beginning of the new year, in spring. (2Ch_24:23) It appears, from 2Ki_25:27-30, that the captivity of Jehoia-chin, which thus began, lasted thirty-seven years, till B.C. 561, past the end of Nebuchadnezzar"s reign, and that he was thenceforward kindly treated by Evil-Merodach. Compare particularly with this verse the parallel in its vers. 10-16. Zedekiah his brother; i.e. not adopting the very generic usage of the terms of relationship, so common in Old Testament language, his uncle. His mother (Hamutal, ver. 18 of parallel) was the same with the mother of Jehoahaz. Ten years old evidently when Jehoiakim began his reign, he must have been thirteen years younger than his whole brother Je-hoahaz. Zedekiah"s name was before Mat-taniah. The account of Zedekiah in the parallel (which see) is very much more full.

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Expired - Hebrew. at the return of the year: at the beginning of the next year, according to the sacred account of the Hebrew, at the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, as is elsewhere said, when Nebuchadnezzar, among others, went forth to settle and enlarge his conquests. His brother - Largely so called, for this was his uncle, or his father's brother, being the son of Josiah.

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And at the return of the year that Jehoiakim was exiled.

with the precious vessels of the House of the Lord the desirable things. Those he took, and the rest he left until the exile of Zedekiah. Then he took everything with him. And in II Kings (24:12), it is explained that “Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, came out to the king of Babylonia, etc.”

and he made Zedekiah his brother king Jehoiakim’s brother, and so in II Kings (24:17), “And the king of Babylonia crowned Mattaniah his uncle in his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah,” Jehoiachin’s uncle.

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