Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 36:10

Charles Ellicott Commentary

2 Chronicles 36:10

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

2 Chronicles 36:10

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem." — 2 Chronicles 36:10 (ASV)

And when the year was expired. “At the return of the year” means in spring, when kings usually went forth to war (2 Samuel 11:1; 1 Kings 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. (2 Chronicles 32:27). “Some of the vessels” had already been carried off (2 Chronicles 36:7). (See 2 Kings 24:13 and Jeremiah 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 (Compare 1 Chronicles 3:15, where Zedekiah appears as a son of Josiah, and 2 Kings 24:17). The versions read “his father’s brother”—a correction. Thenius thinks the word for “uncle” had become illegible in the manuscript the chronicler used here.