Why did God send messengers to His people?
God sent His messengers because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. He raised up prophet after prophet to warn them, call them back from idolatry, and turn them to Himself, but the people would not listen. Their rejection brought judgment.
Les explains that 2 Chronicles 36:15 concerns the southern kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem. 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. God sent prophet after prophet, first to the northern kingdom, where Elijah and Elisha prophesied and worked the nation constantly trying to bring them back, but they would not. God did the same with Judah. Jeremiah was a prophet in Judah, called the weeping prophet, who warned that the Babylonians would come, overrun them, kill without mercy, and take the remnant captive if they did not turn from their idolatry. Instead of listening, the people threw Jeremiah into a dank, wet dungeon and left him there to rot, and that is where the Babylonians found him, because he had tried to warn his people.
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: