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2 Chronicles 36:20

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away captive,.... The king of Babylon, or his general by his orders, excepting some poor persons left to till the land, see Jeremiah 52:15, where they were servants to him and his sons; his son Evilmerodach, and his grandson Belshazzar, [See comments on Jeremiah 27:7]: until the reign of the...

2 Chronicles 36:21

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,.... That is, the Jews were so long servants in Babylon, as in the preceding verse, to accomplish Jeremiah's prophecy of it, 2 Chronicles 25:12 until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from...

2 Chronicles 36:22

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Ver. 22,23. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,.... These two verses are the same with which the next book, the book of Ezra, begins, where they will be explained; and these two books, the one ending and the other beginning with the same words, is a strong presumption, that one and the same person, Ezra, is the writer of them both; or...

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