2 Chronicles 36:21
ContextNETBible | This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 1 The land experienced 2 its sabbatical years; 3 it remained desolate for seventy years, 4 as prophesied. 5 |
XREF | Le 25:4-6; Le 26:34,35,43; Jer 25:9,12; Jer 26:6,7; Jer 27:12,13; Jer 29:10; Da 9:2; Zec 1:4-6; Zec 1:12 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the 2 tn Or “accepted.” 3 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile. 4 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11. 5 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.” sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 |