2 CHRONICLES 36:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
The raising up of the king of the Chaldeans against Jerusalem - describing Nebuchadnezzar as an instrument of God's judgment - indicates that God himself moved the Babylonian king to enact judgment against His rebellious people. The slaughter of the young men even in the sanctuary indicates the totality of the destruction and the desecration of the holy place as part of the judgment's severity. The showing of no mercy suggests judgment executed with full intensity, sparing none in the temple's violation. This verse portrays judgment as comprehensive and absolute, with even the sanctuary offering no refuge from divine wrath.
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