SINS OF THE RULING CLASSES WHICH BROUGHT DOWN THE JUDGMENT OF GOD (2 Chronicles 36:14-16). (Comp. with this passage 2 Kings 17:7-23.)
(14) The chiefs. — The princes.
Transgressed very much. — Committed manifold unfaithfulness.
After all the abominations ... — See Ezekiel 8:5-18; where “the princes of the priests and the people” are specially singled out in 2 Chronicles 36:11; 2 Chronicles 36:16. The twenty-five men of the latter verse are the High Priest and the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests. (Comp. also Jeremiah 32:32, sea).
His Messengers. — The prophets (2 Kings 17:13).