2 CHRONICLES 36:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.”
The account that the land enjoyed its sabbaths, lying desolate for seventy years until the seventy years were completed, indicates that the desolation itself served purposes within God's larger design. The reference to the Levitical sabbath law (Leviticus 25:1-7) suggests that the land's desolation fulfilled what the people had violated - the granting of sabbath rest to the land. The specific number seventy years aligns with Jeremianic prophecy (Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10) and indicates the chronicle's awareness of prophetic timeframes. This verse portrays even desolation as purposeful, suggesting that destruction serves goals beyond mere punishment.
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