2Chronicles:36:1-23
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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah Yo #
shiyah #,
and made him king in his fathers stead in Jerusalem .
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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem .
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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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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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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned eleven #
H6240years in Jerusalem :
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God .
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Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ,
and bound him in fetters ,
to carry him to Babylon .
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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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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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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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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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Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign ,
and reigned eleven #
H6240years in Jerusalem .
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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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And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar N @
buwkadne #
tstsar #,
who had made him swear by God :
but he stiffened his neck ,
and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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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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And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers mal #
ak #,
rising up betimes ,
and sending ;
because he had compassion on his people ,
and on his dwelling place ma #
own #:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 .