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2 Chronicles 36:21

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
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.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE

This happened to fulfill what the LORD had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: the land would rest and enjoy its sabbaths. For as long as the land lay empty and desolate, it kept sabbath rest, completing seventy years.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

This verse explains that the land of Israel remained empty for seventy years as God had promised through Jeremiah, giving the land the sabbath rest it had been denied.

📚 Historical Context

This refers to the Babylonian exile (586-516 BC) when most of the Jewish people were taken captive to Babylon and their land left largely uninhabited. According to Jewish law, the land was supposed to rest every seventh year (sabbath year), but the people had neglected this for many generations. God used the exile to enforce this rest period.

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Translation & Methodology Sources

The original manuscript text provided is based on the King James Version (KJV), which is in the public domain. Our modern English simplifications are generated via proprietary philological synthesis, cross-referenced against Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and the Textus Receptus to ensure unwavering theological and etymological precision.

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