Abominations Acts Behold Book Detestable Disgusting Jehoiachin Jehoi'achin Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jehoiakim's Judah Kings Matters Recorded Reign Reigned Rest Stead Succeeded Written
36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and {d} that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
(d) He means superstitious marks which were found on his body when he was dead, which declared how deeply idolatry was rooted in his heart, seeing he bore the marks in his flesh.
36:8 Found in him - That crime of rebellion against the king of Babylon, which for a time he kept in his own breast, but when he saw fit, discovered it, and was convicted of it.
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.
Abominations Acts Book Detestable Disgusting Events Found Israel Jehoiachin Jehoi'achin Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jehoiakim's Judah Kings Matters Reign Reigned Rest Stead Written
Abominations Acts Book Detestable Disgusting Events Found Israel Jehoiachin Jehoi'achin Jehoiakim Jehoi'akim Jehoiakim's Judah Kings Matters Reign Reigned Rest Stead Written
