2 Chronicles 36:13 BSB

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.

KJV

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The oath of allegiance was taken when he was first installed in his kingdom. On Zedekiah’s sin in breaking his oath, see Eze 17:18-20; Eze 21:25.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

By God - Who had required him to swear fealty and constant obedience to him by the true God, whom he called upon to be a witness against him if he broke his oath. So his rebellion was aggravated with perjury, and horrid contempt of God.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְ֠גַם	Ve.gam	and also	H1571 →
בַּמֶּ֤לֶךְ	ba.Me.lekh	against the king	H4428 →
נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּר֙	ne.vu.khad.ne.Tzar	Nebuchadnezzar	H5019 →
מָרָ֔ד	ma.Rad	he rebelled	H4775 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
הִשְׁבִּיע֖וֹ	hish.bi.'O	he had made swear an oath him	H7650 →
בֵּֽאלֹהִ֑ים	be.lo.Him	by God	H430 →
וַיֶּ֤קֶשׁ	vai.Ye.kesh	and he made stiff	H7185 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עָרְפּוֹ֙	a.re.Po	neck his	H6203 →
וַיְאַמֵּ֣ץ	vay.'a.Metz	and he made hard	H553 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
לְבָב֔וֹ	le.va.Vo	heart his	H3824 →
מִשּׁ֕וּב	mi.Shuv	from turning back	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵ֥י	'e.lo.Hei	[the] God of	H430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 29:10
  Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
- Exodus 32:9
  The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 10:16
  Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- Joshua 24:15
  But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…
- Deuteronomy 6:13
  Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
Through
2 Samuel 21:2
At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal…
leads to
- Joshua 9:3–21
  But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
Through
2 Kings 24:20
For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
  The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
- Deuteronomy 2:30
  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as…