2 Chronicles 36:21 BSB

2 Chronicles 36:21

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

KJV

To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

See the marginal references. The 70 years of desolation prophesied by Jeremiah, commenced in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jer 25:1, Jer 25:12; compare Dan 1:1), or 605 B.C.; and should therefore have terminated, if they were fully complete, in 536 B.C.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This divine institution, however, was neglected--how soon and how long, appears from the prophecy of Moses (see on Le 26:34), and of Jeremiah in this passage (see Jer 25:9-12), which told that for divine retribution it was now to remain desolate seventy years.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְמַלֹּ֤אות	le.ma.Lot	to fulfill	H4390 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בְּפִ֣י	be.Fi	by [the] mouth of	H6310 →
יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ	yir.me.Ya.hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
רָצְתָ֥ה	ra.tze.Tah	it has accepted	H7521 →
הָאָ֖רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שַׁבְּתוֹתֶ֑יהָ	sha.be.to.Tei.ha	sabbaths its	H7676 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֤י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
הָשַּׁמָּה֙	ha.sha.Mah	the desolation of it	H8074 →
שָׁבָ֔תָה	sha.Va.tah	it rested	H7673 →
לְמַלֹּ֖אות	le.ma.Lot	to complete	H4390 →
שִׁבְעִ֥ים	shiv.'Im	seventy	H7657 →
שָׁנָֽה׃ פ	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →

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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
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:10
  For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zechariah 7:5
  “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 25:11–12
  And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- Revelation 1:3
  Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
Through
Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
leads to
- Daniel 9:2
  in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 24:6–7
  I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
- Jeremiah 27:22
  ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
- Jeremiah 25:12
  But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting…