2 Chronicles 36:22 BSB

2 Chronicles 36:22

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

BSB

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ASV

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

KJV

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Now in the first year of Cyrus - This and the following verse are supposed to have been written by mistake from the book of Ezra, which begins in the same way. The book of the Chronicles, properly speaking, does close with the twenty-first verse, as then the Babylonish captivity commences, and these two verses speak of the transactions of a period seventy years after. This was in the first year of the reign of Cyrus over the empire of the East which is reckoned to be A.M. 34

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They are there the introduction to a pleasant story; here they are the conclusion of a very melancholy one; and so we learn from them that, though God's church be cast down, it is not cast off, though his people be corrected, they are not abandoned, though thrown into the furnace, yet not lost there, nor left there any longer than till the dross be separated.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The L ORD his God be with him, and let him go up. These last two verses of this book have a double aspect. They look back to the prophecy of Jeremiah, and show how that was accomplished,

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבִשְׁנַ֣ת	u.vish.Nat	and in year	H8141 →
אַחַ֗ת	'a.Chat	one	H259 →
לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙	le.Kho.resh	of Cyrus	H3566 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
פָּרַ֔ס	pa.Ras	Persia	H6539 →
לִכְל֥וֹת	likh.Lot	to fulfill	H3615 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בְּפִ֣י	be.Fi	by [the] mouth of	H6310 →
יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ	yir.me.Ya.hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
הֵעִ֣יר	he.'Ir	he stirred up	H5782 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
ר֙וּחַ֙	Ru.ach	[the] spirit of	H7307 →
כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ	Ko.resh	Cyrus	H3566 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
פָּרַ֔ס	pa.Ras	Persia	H6539 →
וַיַּֽעֲבֶר־	vai.ya.'a.ver-	and he caused to pass	H5674 →
קוֹל֙	kOl	a proclamation	H6963 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
מַלְכוּת֔וֹ	mal.khu.To	kingdom his	H4438 →
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
בְּמִכְתָּ֖ב	be.mikh.Tav	in writing	H4385 →
לֵאמֹֽר׃ ס	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →

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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
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 3 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.
- 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?
- Jeremiah 32:42–44
  For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
Through
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.
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.
- Leviticus 26:34–35
  Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- 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.
- Zechariah 1:12
  Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”