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36:10 Expired - Heb. 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.
36:1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.
Articles Babylon Beautiful Expired Goodly House Jehoiachin's Jerusalem Judah Kinsman Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnez'zar Precious Spring Temple Together Turn Valuable Value Vessels Zedekiah
Articles Babylon Beautiful Expired Goodly House Jehoiachin's Jerusalem Judah Kinsman Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnez'zar Precious Spring Temple Together Turn Valuable Value Vessels Zedekiah
