2 Chronicles 36

(2) The patience of God shall not come to an issue with any apostate church or nation until he himself declares and determines that all due means have been used for their recovery. And the judgement hereof, he will not leave to the best of men, he would not do so to Elijah himse…

It is not in the knowledge of divinity as in other sciences: in them you may neglect a year or two, and get it again; but it is not so in this; you will not be able to return again, you are near a curse, you cannot redeem it. See what follows in the neglecting of the Word (2 Chr…

I find some (and I confess not without som probability) understand all these of the true Prophets, and then the sense will run thus; You accounted the Prophets of the Lord, who declared the mind of the Lord faithfully to you, to be no other than fools and mad-men, but you shall…

But yet God in mercy deferred the beginning of their bondage; whereby the time was much shortened at the beginning. So the time wherein it was foretold that the whole land of Israel should be a desolation and an astonishment, and the land should enjoy her sabbaths, by the Babylo…

5. These, then, were — if not all, at least the chief — idols and the means and instruments of false worship by which this people, most abandoned to idolatry, initiated in this apostasy, defiled and contaminated themselves by rejecting the first foundation of Mosaic Theology. Go…

Today, if ye will hear my voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work: Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said it is a people that do err in…

Of the Ark we shall have occasion to treat afterwards, and of its fictitious hiding by Jeremiah; or Josiah, as the Jews fancy. This we may observe for the present, that as it is certain, that it was carried away by the Babylonians among other vessels of gold belonging to the Tem…

In the mean time, whether occasionally, or by advice, the Tabernacle was removed from Shilo, and that first place of the solemn worship of God altogether deserted, and made an example of what God would afterwards do to the Temple, when his worship therein also was neglected and…

He that despises you, despises me, says our Savior (Luke 10:16). And God will not leave this sin unpunished, indeed he speaks of it as almost an unpardonable crime (2 Chronicles 36:16): They mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until th…

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear: indeed they made their heart like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of Hosts had sent in his spirit by the former prophets: th…

And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of that just one, of whom you are murderers, (says he) they who cast down the lodging they injure the indweller; the godly prophet is the house and lodging of the holy Ghost. (2 Chronicles 36:12) Zedekiah humbled not him…

5. The ministers of Christ, the preachers of this religion, are with a distinguishing enmity everywhere spoken against. Under the Old Testament God's messengers and his prophets were generally mocked and misused, and it was Jerusalem's measure-filling sin (2 Chronicles 36:16). I…

As long as the owner supposes that his tree may in time become serviceable, there is some reason for his letting it stand in the vineyard, but when all grounds of so looking for it fail, and he utterly despairs of any such thing, what should he let it stand for any longer? That…

This is the complaint of Christ (Matthew 23:37), How oft would I have gathered your children, but you would not. This was it that made God's anger to burn so hotly against Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 36:15, 16). This is his very quarrel with them (Amos 4:6), Yet have you not returne…

And is it not worse to see multitudes of sick souls lying and bleeding, with their spiritual physicians removed from them? This is a wrath-provoking sin (2 Chronicles 36:16): they abused his prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, until there was no remedy…

The Priests in Jeremiah's time were desperately wicked and set upon blood, even upon having Jeremiah's blood, pronouncing sentence upon him, This man is worthy to die, and You shall surely die (Jeremiah 26:8, 11). And there were many complaints by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other Pr…

No, by this means Christ himself is despised, no, our condemnation is hereby sealed irrecoverably. The text says, they despised God's word, till the wrath of the Lord arose, and there was no remedy (2 Chronicles 36:16). No, hereby we aggravate our condemnation.

You have wearied him with your iniquities, and made him serve with your sins, and have saddened his heart exceedingly by strange impenitency (Isaiah 43:24). The only reason that has moved him to call to you, has been pity to you, seeing you running to the fire that never can be…

(2.) Because, the predictions of the Prophets, are expressly called the Word of God. 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 (2 Chronicles 36:22). Here we see it is evident, that the written p…

For they do not look upon the Word as their Rule, seeing (as they dream) they have a Light within them, beyond that more sure Word of Prophecy, which the Apostle Peter prefers to a voice from Heaven. Indeed, they have so little veneration for the Scriptures, that they will not s…

General apostasy makes way for general calamity, learn this in Shiloh; the Priests violated God's ordinances, and the people they provoked him with their idols, and then see the effects. Israel is smitten, 30000 slain, the Ark lost, the Priests slain (1 Samuel 4:10, 11), read th…

(1.) They are a burden of grief and sorrow to the godly, who hear and fear (Habakkuk 3:16). (2.) Of indignation to the wicked, who cannot endure so much as to hear of them, the very threatening is to them intolerable (Amos 7:10; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Jeremiah 26:8, 9). 3. In some…