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2 Chronicles 36
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- 36:1 Then the
people of the
land
took
Jehoahaz the
son of
Josiah, and made him
king in his
father's stead in
Jerusalem.
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- 36:2
Jehoahaz was
twenty and
three
years
old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned
three
months in
Jerusalem.
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- 36:3 And the
king of
Egypt put him
down at
Jerusalem, and
condemned the
land in an
hundred
talents of
silver and a
talent of
gold.
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- 36:4 And the
king of
Egypt made
Eliakim his
brother
king over
Judah and
Jerusalem, and
turned his
name to
Jehoiakim. And
Necho
took
Jehoahaz his
brother, and
carried him to
Egypt.
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- 36:5
Jehoiakim was
twenty and
five
years
old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned
eleven
*
years in
Jerusalem: and he
did that which was
evil in the
sight of the
LORD his
God.
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- 36:6 Against him came
up
Nebuchadnezzar
king of
Babylon, and
bound him in
fetters, to
carry him to
Babylon.
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- 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also
carried of the
vessels of the
house of the
LORD to
Babylon, and
put them in his
temple at
Babylon.
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- 36:8 Now the
rest of the
acts of
Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he
did, and that which was
found in him, behold, they are
written in the
book of the
kings of
Israel and
Judah: and
Jehoiachin his
son
reigned in his stead.
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- 36:9
Jehoiachin was
eight
years
old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned
three
months and
ten
days in
Jerusalem: and he
did that which was
evil in the
sight of the
LORD.
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- 36:10 And when the
year was
expired,
king
Nebuchadnezzar
sent, and
brought him to
Babylon, with the
goodly
vessels of the
house of the
LORD, and made
Zedekiah his
brother
king over
Judah and
Jerusalem.
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- 36:11
Zedekiah was
one and
twenty
years
old when he began to
reign, and
reigned
eleven
*
years in
Jerusalem.
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- 36:12 And he
did that which was
evil in the
sight of the
LORD his
God, and
humbled not himself
before
Jeremiah the
prophet speaking from the
mouth of the
LORD.
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- 36:13 And he also
rebelled against
king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him
swear by
God: but he
stiffened his
neck, and
hardened his
heart from
turning unto the
LORD
God of
Israel.
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- 36:14 Moreover all the
chief of the
priests, and the
people,
transgressed
very
much after all the
abominations of the
heathen; and
polluted the
house of the
LORD which he had
hallowed in
Jerusalem.
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- 36:15 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:
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- 36:16 But they
mocked the
messengers of
God, and
despised his
words, and
misused his
prophets, until the
wrath of the
LORD
arose against his
people, till there was no
remedy.
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- 36:17 Therefore he
brought upon them the
king of the
Chaldees, who
slew their young
men with the
sword in the
house of their
sanctuary, and had no
compassion upon young
man or
maiden, old
man, or him that stooped for
age: he
gave them all into his
hand.
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- 36:18 And all the
vessels of the
house of
God,
great and
small, and the
treasures of the
house of the
LORD, and the
treasures of the
king, and of his
princes; all these he
brought to
Babylon.
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- 36:19 And they
burnt the
house of
God, and brake
down the
wall of
Jerusalem, and
burnt all the
palaces thereof with
fire, and
destroyed all the
goodly
vessels thereof.
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- 36:20 And them that had
escaped from the
sword carried he
away to
Babylon; where they were
servants to him and his
sons until the
reign of the
kingdom of
Persia:
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- 36:21 To
fulfil the
word of the
LORD by the
mouth of
Jeremiah, until the
land had
enjoyed her
sabbaths: for as long
as she lay
desolate she kept
sabbath, to
fulfil threescore and
ten
years.
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- 36:22 Now in the
first
year of
Cyrus
king of
Persia, that the
word of the
LORD spoken by the
mouth of
Jeremiah might be
accomplished, the
LORD stirred
up the
spirit of
Cyrus
king of
Persia, that he made a
proclamation
* throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in
writing,
saying,
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- 36:23 Thus
saith
Cyrus
king of
Persia, All the
kingdoms of the
earth hath the
LORD
God of
heaven
given me; and he hath
charged me to
build him an
house in
Jerusalem, which is in
Judah. Who is there among you of all his
people? The
LORD his
God be with him, and let him go
up.
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