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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 36:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Ch 36:14 |
Strong Concordance |
Moreover all the chief [08269] of the priests [03548], and the people [05971], transgressed [04603] very [04604] much [07235] after all the abominations [08441] of the heathen [01471]; and polluted [02930] the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] which he had hallowed [06942] in Jerusalem [03389]. |
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King James |
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Polluted the house of the Lord - Toward the close of Zedekiah's reign idolatrous rites of several different kinds were intruded into the sacred precincts of the temple (compare Eze 8:10-16). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
"And all princes of the priests and the people increased faithless transgressions, like to all the abominations of the heathen, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem." Bertheau would refer this censure of their idolatry and the profanation of the temple to the guilt incurred by the whole people, especially in the time of Manasseh, because, from all we know from the book of Jeremiah, the reproach of idolatry did not at all, or at least did not specially, attach to the princes of the priests and the people in the time of Zedekiah. But this reason is neither tenable nor correct; for from Ezek 8 it is perfectly manifest that under Zedekiah, not only the people, but also the priesthood, were deeply sunk in idolatry, and that even the courts of the temple were defiled by it. And even though that idolatry did not take its rise under Zedekiah, but had been much practised under Jehoiakim, and was merely a revival and continuation of the idolatrous conduct of Manasseh and Amon, yet the reference of our verse to the time of Manasseh is excluded by the context; for here only that which was done under Zedekiah is spoken of, without any reference to earlier times.
Meanwhile God did not leave them without exhortation, warning, and threatening. - Ch2 36:15. Jahve sent to them by His messengers, from early morning onwards continually, for He spared His people and His dwelling-place; but they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets. בּיד שׁלח, to send a message by any one, to make a sending. The object is to be supplied from the verb. ושׁלוח השׁכּם exactly as in Jer 26:5; Jer 29:19. For He spared His people, etc., viz., by this, that He, in long-suffering, again and again called upon the people by prophets to repent and return, and was not willing at once to destroy His people and His holy place. מלעיבים is ἁπ. λεγ., in Syr. it signifies subsannavit; the Hithp. also, מתּעתּעים (from תּעע), occurs only here as an intensive: to launch out in mockery. The distinction drawn between מלאכים (messengers) and נביאים (prophets) is rhetorical, for by the messengers of God it is chiefly prophets who are meant; but the expression is not to be confined to prophets in the narrower sense of the word, for it embraces all the men of God who, by word and deed, censured and punished the godless conduct of the idolaters. The statement in these two verses is certainly so very general, that it may apply to all the times of gradually increasing defection of the people from the Lord their God; but the author of the Chronicle had primarily in view only the time of Zedekiah, in which the defection reached its highest point. It should scarcely be objected that in the time of Zedekiah only Jeremiah is known as a prophet of the Lord, since Ezekiel lived and wrought among the exiles. For, in the first place, it does not hence certainly follow that Jeremiah and Ezekiel were the only prophets of that time; then, secondly, Jeremiah does not speak as an individual prophet, but holds up to the people the witness of all the earlier prophets (cf. e.g., Ch2 26:4-5), so that by him all the former prophets of God spoke to the people; and consequently the plural, His messengers, His prophets, is perfectly true even for the time of Zedekiah, if we always keep in mind the rhetorical character of the style. וגו עלות עד, until the anger of Jahve rose upon His people, so that there was no healing (deliverance) more. |
10 So I went in [0935] and saw [07200]; and behold every form [08403] of creeping things [07431], and abominable [08263] beasts [0929], and all the idols [01544] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], pourtrayed [02707] upon the wall [07023] round about [05439].
11 And there stood [05975] before [06440] them seventy [07657] men [0376] of the ancients [02205] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], and in the midst [08432] of them stood [05975] Jaazaniah [02970] the son [01121] of Shaphan [08227], with every man [0376] his censer [04730] in his hand [03027]; and a thick [06282] cloud [06051] of incense [07004] went up [05927].
12 Then said [0559] he unto me, Son [01121] of man [0120], hast thou seen [07200] what the ancients [02205] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478] do [06213] in the dark [02822], every man [0376] in the chambers [02315] of his imagery [04906]? for they say [0559], The LORD [03068] seeth [07200] us not; the LORD [03068] hath forsaken [05800] the earth [0776].
13 He said [0559] also unto me, Turn [07725] thee yet again, and thou shalt see [07200] greater [01419] abominations [08441] that they do [06213].
14 Then he brought [0935] me to the door [06607] of the gate [08179] of the LORD'S [03068] house [01004] which was toward the north [06828]; and, behold, there sat [03427] women [0802] weeping [01058] for Tammuz [08542].
15 Then said [0559] he unto me, Hast thou seen [07200] this, O son [01121] of man [0120]? turn [07725] thee yet again, and thou shalt see [07200] greater [01419] abominations [08441] than these.
16 And he brought [0935] me into the inner [06442] court [02691] of the LORD'S [03068] house [01004], and, behold, at the door [06607] of the temple [01964] of the LORD [03068], between the porch [0197] and the altar [04196], were about five [02568] and twenty [06242] men [0376], with their backs [0268] toward the temple [01964] of the LORD [03068], and their faces [06440] toward the east [06924]; and they worshipped [07812] the sun [08121] toward the east [06924].
4 And he did [06213] that which was right [03477] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], according to all that his father [01] Amaziah [0558] did [06213].
5 And he sought [01875] God [0430] in the days [03117] of Zechariah [02148], who had understanding [0995] in the visions [07200] of God [0430]: and as long as [03117] he sought [01875] the LORD [03068], God [0430] made him to prosper [06743].
19 Because they have not hearkened [08085] to my words [01697], saith [05002] the LORD [03068], which I sent [07971] unto them by my servants [05650] the prophets [05030], rising up early [07925] and sending [07971] them; but ye would not hear [08085], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
5 To hearken [08085] to the words [01697] of my servants [05650] the prophets [05030], whom I sent [07971] unto you, both rising up early [07925], and sending [07971] them, but ye have not hearkened [08085];
15 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] of their fathers [01] sent [07971] to them by [03027] his messengers [04397], rising up betimes [07925], and sending [07971]; because he had compassion [02550] on his people [05971], and on his dwelling place [04583]: