In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem is here coming on by degrees. God so ordered it to show that he has no pleasure in the ruin of sinners, but had rather they would turn and live, and therefore gives them both time and inducement to repent and waits to be gracious. The history of these reigns was more largely recorded in the last three chapters of the second of Kings.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 36:1-10
Made Zedekiah - king - His name was at first Mattaniah, but the king of Babylon changed it to Zedekiah. See Kg2 24:17 (note), and the notes there.
2Ch 36:9-10 The reign of Jehoiachin. Cf. 2Ki 24:8-17. - Jehoiachin’s age at his accession is here given as eight years, while in 2Ki 24:8 it is eighteen. It is so also in the lxx and Vulg.; but a few Hebr. codd., Syr., and Arab., and many manuscripts of the lxx, have eighteen years in the Chronicle also. The number eight is clearly an orthographical error, as Thenius also acknowledges.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 36:9-10