II Chronicles 36:15-21; Psalms 137:1-6

The book of II Chronicles is an account of those things which came to pass during the reigns of Solomon and the kings who ruled after him from Jerusalem, the fall of Jerusalem, the captivity in Babylon, and through the end of the Babylonian Empire, a period of about 430 years. The text before us (both II Chronicles 36 and Psalms 137) describes events which transpired during the last seventy…