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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 36:21
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, etc.] That is, the Jews were so long servants in Babylon, as in the preceding verse, to accomplish Jeremiah’s prophecy of it, (<142512>2 Chronicles 25:12 27:7 29:10) until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, (<032504>Leviticus 25:4), which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest for want of persons to till it: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years; as threatened in (<032634>Leviticus 26:34,35) on which text Jarchi observes, that at the destruction of the first temple the law concerning the sabbath, or rest of the land had been neglected four hundred and thirty years, in which space were sixty nine sabbatical years; and, according to Maimonides f165, it was at the end of a sabbatic year that the city and temple were destroyed, and so just seventy years had been neglected, and the land was tilled in them as in other years, and now it had rest that exact number of years; but of this we cannot be certain, though it is probable. Ver. 22,23. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, etc.] These two verses are the same with which the next book, the book of Ezra, begins, where they will be explained; and these two books, the one ending and the other beginning with the same words, is a strong presumption, that one and the same person, Ezra, is the writer of them both; or rather, as a learned f166 writer conjectures, these two verses are added by some transcriber, who, having finished the book of Chronicles at verse twenty one went on with the book of Ezra, without any stop; but, perceiving his mistake, broke off abruptly; for so it is plain these verses conclude; however, this shows, as the same writer observes, that the book of Ezra followed that of the Chronicles, in the Hebrew copies, though it now does not. FOOTNOTES ft1 - Comment. Ebr. p. 197. ft2 - Apud Kimchium. in loc. ft3 - In Targum in loc. ft4 - Apud Kimchium in loc. ft5 - So Kimchi, tkm “pro” tlkm “ineuria librariorum”, Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col. 73. ft6 - Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p. 197. ft7 - Luther. Emanuel Sa, Piscator, Schmidt, Beckius in Targum in loc. ft8 - Erasm. Schmid. de America Orat. ad Calc. Pindar. p. 261. Montani Phaleg. in Calc. Jac. Capellus in loc. ft9 - Phaleg. l. 2. c. 27. & Canaan, l. 1. c. 46. col. 692. Braunius de Vest. Sacred. Heb. p. 221. ft10 - Prodrom. Copt. c. 4. p. 119. ft11 - De Antiqu. Num. Heb. l. 1. c. 6. ft12 - Nat. Hist l. 6. c. 28. ft13 - Difficil. Script. Sacr. cent. 3. loc. 16. p. 247. ft14 - Bab. Yoma, fol. 45. 1. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 4. Shemot Rabba, sect. 39. fol. 136. 4. ft15 - Brerewood de Ponder. etc. c. 5. ft16 - Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34. p. 450. ft17 - Cunaeus de Rep. Heb. l. 2. c. 5. ft18 - Prospect of the Temple, ch. 34. p. 2029. So Villalpandus. ft19 - Middot, c. 3. sect. 4. ft20 - De Victimis, p. 850. ft21 - Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408. ft22 - Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 4. p. 20. ft23 - Eliac, 1. sive, l. 5. p. 312. ft24 - Plin. Ep. l. 4. ep. 1. ft25 - Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. dyn. 3. p. 53. ft26 - l[ peri Sept. de, Junius & Tremellias, Piscator. ft27 - Cippi Heb. p. 10. ft28 - Travels, par. 3. c. 22. p. 321. Ed. Ray. ft29 - Antiqu. l. 13. c. 9. sect. 1. ft30 - dltw “peperit”, Pagninus,…
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