36:1-23
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Failure, defeat and captivity (2Chr 36:1-23)
The Chronicler spent much time describing the reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah, impressing upon his readers that good kings tried to be faithful to the Mosaic and Davidic covenants.
They had to follow the Levitical order if they were to enjoy the promises given to the dynasty of David.
With the death of Josiah, Judah quickly returned to its former ungodly ways. Successive kings followed disastrous policies, both political and religious, which resulted in God’s final judgment upon the nation. He allowed Babylon to conquer Judah, destroy Jerusalem, and take the people captive to a foreign land.
It is not the Chronicler’s purpose to record details of the conquest.
These are given in Kings. Instead he draws attention to the reasons for Judah’s destruction: the unfaithfulness of the priests and the people, and their refusal to heed the warnings of the messengers God sent to them (2Chr 36:1-21; see notes on 2 Kings 23:31-25:30).
Yet God did not cast off his people for ever. About seventy years later a new age dawned, when Cyrus, the Persian king who had conquered Babylon, announced that the Jews were free to return to their homeland and rebuild their nation.
As formerly, that nation was to have its life centred on the temple in Jerusalem (2Chr 36:22-23).
APPENDIX
Index of Parallel Passages
| 1 Chronicles | 1 Samuel |
| _ | 1Sa 1:1-30:31 |
| 1Chr 1:1-9:44 | _ |
| 1Chr 10:1-14 | 1Sa 31:1-13 |
| 2 Samuel | |
| _ | 2Sa 1:1-4:12 |
| 1Chr 11:1-9 | 2Sa 5:1-10 |
| 1Chr 11:10-47 | 2Sa 23:8-39 |
| 1Chr 12:1-40 | |
| 1Chr 13:1-14 | 2Sa 6:1-11 |
| 1Chr 14:1-17 | 2Sa 5:11-25 |
| 1Chr 15:1-16:3 | 2Sa 6:12-23 |
| 1Chr 16:4-43 | |
| 1Chr 17:1-27 | 2Sa 7:1-29 |
| 1Chr 18:1-17 | 2Sa 8:1-18 |
| 2Sa 9:1-13 | |
| 1Chr 19:1-19 | 2Sa 10:1-19 |
| 1Chr 20:1 | 2Sa 11:1 |
| 2Sa 11:2-12:25 | |
| 1Chr 20:2-3 | 2Sa 12:26-31 |
| 2Sa 13:1-21:17 | |
| 1Chr 20:4-8 | 2Sa 21:18-22 |
| 2Sa 22:1-23:7 | |
| 1Chr21:1-22:1 | 2Sa 24:1-25 |
| 1Chr 22:2-29:30 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 Kings |
| 1Ki 1:1-3:3 | |
| 2Chr 1:1-13 | 1Ki 3:4-15 |
| 1Ki 3:16-4:34 | |
| 2Chr 1:14-17 | 1Ki 10:26-29 |
| 2Chr2:1-18 | 1Ki 5:1-18 |
| 2Chr 3:1-5:1 | 1Ki 6:1-7:51 |
| 2Chr 5:2-7:22 | 1Ki 8:1-9:9 |
| 2Chr 8:1-18 | 1Ki 9:10-28 |
| 2Chr 9:1-28 | 1Ki 10:1-25 |
| 1Ki 11:1-40 | |
| 2Chr 9:29-31 | 1Ki 11:41-43 |
| 2Chr 10:1-11:4 | 1Ki 12:1-24 |
| 1Ki 12:25-14:20 | |
| 2Chr 11:5-12:16 | 1Ki 14:21-31 |
| 2Chr 13:1-22 | 1Ki 15:1-8 |
| 2Chr 14:1-16:14 | 1Ki 15:9-24 |
| 1Ki 15:25-21:29 | |
| 2Chr 17:1-19 | |
| 2Chr 18:1-34 | 1Ki 22:1-40 |
| 2Chr 19:1-20:30 | |
| 2Chr 20:31-37 | 1Ki 22:41-50 |
| 1Ki 22:51-53 | |
| 2 Kings | |
| 2Ki 1:1-8:15 | |
| 2Chr 21:1-20 | 2Ki 8:16-24 |
| 2Chr 22:1-6 | 2Ki 8:25-29 |
| 2Ki 9:1-20 | |
| 2Chr 22:7-9 | 2Ki 9:21-29; 10:12-14 |
| 2Ki 9:30-10:11 | |
| 2Ki 10:15-36 | |
| 2Chr 22:10-23:21 | 2Ki 11:1-20 |
| 2Chr 24:1-27 | 2Ki 11:21-12:21 |
| 2Ki 13:1-25 | |
| 2Chr 25:1-26:2 | 2Ki 14:1-22 |
| 2Ki 14:23-29 | |
| 2Chr 26:3-23 | 2Ki 15:1-7 |
| 2Ki 15:8-31 | |
| 2Chr 27:1-9 | 2Ki 15:32-38 |
| 2Chr 28:1-27 | 2Ki 16:1-20 |
| 2Ki 17:1-41 | |
| 2Ki 18:1-12 | |
| 2Chr 29:1-31:21 | |
| 2Chr 32:1-33 | 2Ki 18:13-20:21 |
| 2Chr 33:1-25 | 2Ki 21:1-26 |
| 2Chr 34:1-33 | 2Ki 22:1-23:20 |
| 2Chr 35:1-27 | 2Ki 23:21-30 |
| 2Chr 36:1-21 | 2Ki 23:31-25:30 |
| 2Chr 36:22-23 |
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