(19) They burnt the house of God.--2Kings 25:9.

Brake down the wall . . .--Jeremiah 39:8; 2Kings 25:9-10.

And destroyed all the goodly vessels.--Literally, And all her delightsome vessels were for destroying (l?hashchith). (Comp. Isaiah 64:11): "all our pleasant things are laid waste." 2Kings 25:13 speaks of the breaking-up of the great vessels of the Temple, for the sake of carrying off their material more easily.

Servants to him and his sons . . . kingdom Of Persia.--A fulfilment of Jeremiah's prophecy concerning Nebuchadnezzar: "And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come" (Jeremiah 27:7). Comp. also Isaiah's word to Hezekiah (2Kings 20:18.)

Verses 19, 20. - (Compare the parallel, 2 Kings 25:1-12; Jeremiah 39:1-10; Jeremiah 52:24-30.) The reign of the kingdom of Persia; i.e. the ascending on the throne of the Persian king. The immediate successor of Nebuchadnezzar was his son Evil-Merodach.

36:1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.And they burnt the house of the Lord,.... The temple; of which, and what follows in this verse; see Gill on Jeremiah 52:13; see Gill on Jeremiah 52:14.