Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
4. which [R.V. and ] the Lord would not pardon ] The example, set for so long a time, had so penetrated the national character, that Jehovah, who multiplies His pardon (Isa 55:7), could bear with the transgressions no longer. We gather from Chronicles that Jehoiakim did evil like his predecessors. His abominations that he did, and that which was found in him (probably meaning, the evil found in his ways), were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For the innocent blood, to wit, of those prophets and saints who either reproved or would not comply with his idolatrous worship.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
4. the Lord would not pardon(seeon 2Ki 23:26; Jer15:1).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,…. See 2Ki 21:16 which cruel usage of the prophets, and servants of the Lord, was still continued; see
Jer 26:21,
which the Lord would not pardon; he pardoned the sins of Manasseh, who repented, but not the sins of those persons who imitated him, but repented not; or though he personally pardoned the sins of Manasseh, so that he was saved everlastingly, yet the temporal punishment of the nation for those sins, in which they were involved with him, was not averted.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(4) The innocent blood.Heb., blood of the innocent; an expression like hand of the right, i.e., the right hand; or, day of the sixth, i.e., the sixth day. Thenius thinks the murder of some prominent personage, such as Isaiah, may be intended, and wishes to distinguish between the statement of the first clause of the verse and the second; but 2Ki. 21:16, where the two statements are connected more closely, does not favour this view.
Which the Lord would not pardon.Literally, and Jehovah willed not to pardon. We must not soften the statement of 2Ki. 24:3-4, as Bhr does, by asserting the meaning to be that the nation was punished, not for the sins of Manasseh, but for its persistence in the same kind of sins. The sins of Manasseh are regarded as a climax in Judahs long course of provocation: the cup was full, and judgment ready to fall. It was only suspended for a time, not revoked, in the reign of the good king Josiah. In short, the idea of the writer is that the innocent blood shed by Manasseh cried to heaven for vengeance, and that the ruin of the kingdom was the answer of the All righteous Judge. It is no objection to say, that in that case children suffered for their fathers misdeeds; that was precisely the Old Testament doctrine, until Ezekiel proclaimed another (Eze. 18:19; comp. Exo. 20:5; Deu. 5:9). Looking at the catastrophe from a different standpoint, we may remember that national iniquities must be chastised in the present life, if at all; and that the sufferings of the exile were necessary for the purification of Israel from its inveterate tendency to apostatise from Jehovah.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ki 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Ver. 4. And also for the innocent blood. ] Of this crying sin Jehoahaz also and Jehoiakim were deeply guilty. Jer 22:17 Eze 19:1-14
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
blood. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for murder, and the guilt of it.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
for the innocent: 2Ki 21:16, Num 35:33, Deu 19:10, Jer 2:34, Jer 19:4
he filled: Psa 106:38
which: Jer 15:1, Jer 15:2, Lam 3:42, Eze 33:25
Reciprocal: Deu 21:8 – lay not 2Sa 21:9 – before the Lord 2Ki 21:6 – wrought 2Ki 21:11 – Because 2Ki 23:26 – Notwithstanding 2Ch 33:9 – made Judah 2Ch 34:25 – Because Psa 9:12 – When Pro 6:17 – and hands Jer 7:6 – and shed Jer 15:4 – because Jer 22:3 – neither Jer 22:17 – to shed Jer 26:15 – ye shall Jer 32:31 – that I Eze 7:23 – for Eze 8:17 – for Eze 9:9 – and the land Eze 11:9 – and deliver Eze 18:19 – Why Eze 22:2 – bloody city Eze 23:37 – and blood Eze 24:6 – Woe Eze 33:21 – The city Mat 1:10 – Manasses Mat 23:35 – upon Mat 27:4 – the innocent Mat 27:25 – His Luk 3:20 – General Luk 11:50 – the blood Rev 16:6 – they have