Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 36:15
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through the Chronicler to recount Judah’s history at the moment before final exile, immediately following the priests’ and people’s defilement of the temple.
The words — The Hebrew וַיִּשְׁלַח (va-yishlach, "and he sent") and הַשְׁכֵּם (hashkem, "rising early") denote persistent, proactive divine communication directed toward the people.
The thread — This pattern of repeated prophetic warning appears in Jeremiah 7:13, 35:15, and 25:3, where God's repeated sending of messengers precedes the stirring of wrath.
Why it lands — The text states that God's repeated outreach stems from compassion for the people and His dwelling place, requiring the reader to acknowledge that divine patience is active yet ultimately overridden by deliberate mockery.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
- Jeremiah 35:15 Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 25:3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
- Judges 10:16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18 They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- Jeremiah 7:25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- Jeremiah 26:5 and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
- Jeremiah 44:4 Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Luke 19:41 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
- 2 Kings 13:23 But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.