2 Chronicles 36:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Therefore he brought up.And He caused to come up; alluding to “the wrath... went up.”

In the house of their sanctuary. — Which they had polluted (2 Chronicles 36:14). The scene of their sin witnessed their destruction.

Him that stooped for age. — Rather, greyheaded, hoary (yâshçsh). (Comp. Ezekiel 9, where the horrors of the capture of Jerusalem are ascribed expressly to the Divine working; see also Jeremiah 15:1-9; Deuteronomy 32:25.)

He gave them all into his hand. — Comp. Jeremiah 37:6; Jeremiah 32:3-4.

Them all. — Literally, the whole, everything, τά πάντα. “Them all” would be hullâm, whereas the text is hakkôl. (So 2 Chronicles 36:18, “all these.”) Jerusalem was taken 588 B.C.

2 Chronicles 36:17

17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.