Text: 2 Chronicles 36:11-17
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 24:18-20
Subject: Zedekiah's reign and Jerusalem's fall — parallel account
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Zedekiah's reign leading to Jerusalem's destruction. Kings focuses on the political-military narrative: the siege, famine, breach, Zedekiah's flight and capture, his sons killed before his eyes, his blinding. The Chronicler provides the theological explanation: Zedekiah "stiffened his neck and hardened his heart" (2 Chr 36:13), the priests and people increased unfaithfulness, God "sent word to them through His messengers again and again, because He had compassion on His people," but "they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, until there was no remedy" (2 Chr 36:15-16). This is the Chronicler's definitive theological verdict on the exile.