2 Chronicles 36:14

“Moreover, the chief of the priests, and of the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathens, etc.] The priests, and even the chief of them, who should have instructed the people in the duties of religion, and retained them in the pure worship of God, these were the ringleaders of idolatry, who led the people to commit all the idolatries of the Heathens round about them; and of the people, all ranks and degrees of them were corrupted with them; this was their case in several of the preceding reigns, and now a little before the destruction of them: and polluted the house of the Lord, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem; the temple dedicated to his worship there;…”

“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 Ezekiel 8:10-16). return to 'Top of Page'”

“all the chief: Kg2 16:10-16; Ezr 9:7; Jer 5:5, Jer 37:13-15, Jer 38:4; Eze 22:6, Eze 22:26-28; Dan 9:6, Dan 9:8; Mic 3:1-4, Mic 3:9-11, Mic 7:2; Zep 3:3, Zep 3:4 very much: Ch2 28:3, Ch2 33:9 polluted: Ch2 33:4-7; Eze 8:5-16 2 Chronicles 36:15”

“"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,…”