2Chronicles:36

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* And the people of the land took Jehoahaz , son of Josiah , and made him king instead of his father , in Jerusalem . * Twenty-three years old , was Joahaz when he began to reign , and , three months , reigned he in Jerusalem . * And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem , and condemned the land , in a hundred talents of silver , and a talent of gold . * And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem , and changed his name to Jehoiakim , but Neco took , Joahaz his brother , and carried him to Egypt . * Twenty-five years old , was Jehoiakim when he began to reign , and , eleven years , reigned he in Jerusalem , and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh his God . * Against him , came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , and bound him in fetters of bronze , to carry him to Babylon . * And , some of the utensils of the house of Yahweh , did Nebuchadnezzar carry to Babylon , and put them in his own temple in Babylon . * But , the rest of the story of Jehoiakim , and his abominations which he made , and that which was found upon him , there they are , written in the book of the Kings of Israel and Judah , and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead . * Eight years old , was Jehoiachin when he began to reign , and , three months and ten days , reigned he in Jerusalem , and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh ; * and , when the year came round , King Nebuchadnezzar sent , and carried him to Babylon , with the precious utensils of the house of Yahweh , and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem . * Twenty-one years old , was Zedekiah when he began to reign , and , eleven years , reigned he in Jerusalem . * And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh his God ,-he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet , from the mouth of Yahweh . * Moreover alsoagainst King Nebuchadnezzar , he rebelled , who had made him swear by God ,-and he stiffened his neck , and emboldened his heart , from turning unto Yahweh , God of Israel . * Also , all the rulers of the priests and of the people , abounded in committing treachery , according to all the abominable ways of the nations , and polluted the house of Yahweh , which he had hallowed in Jerusalem . * And , though Yahweh God of their fathers sent unto them through his messengers , zealously sending them , because he had compassion upon his people and upon his habitation , * yet became they mockers of the messengers of God , and despisers of his words , and mimics of his prophets , until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people , until there was no healing . * So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans , who slew their young men with the sword , in the house of their sanctuary , and had no compassion upon young man or virgin , elder or ancient ,-all , delivered he into his hand . * And , all the utensils of the house of God , both great and small , and the treasures of the house of Yahweh , and the treasures of the king and of his rulers , the whole , carried he to Babylon ; * and they burned the house of God , and threw down the wall of Jerusalem , and , all the palaces thereof , burned they with fire , and , all the precious vessels thereof , he destroyed ; * and he exiled the remnant left from the sword , into Babylon , where they became his and his sons , as servants , until the reign of the kingdom of Persia : * to fulfil the word of God , by the mouth of Jeremiah , until the land had paid off her sabbaths , all the days of her lying desolate , she kept sabbath , to fulfil seventy years . * But , in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , to accomplish the word of God by the mouth of Jeremiah , Yahweh aroused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia , so that he made proclamation throughout all his kingdom , moreover also in writing , saying : * Thus , saith Cyrus king of Persia , All the kingdoms of the earth , hath Yahweh God of the heavens , given unto me , and , he himself , hath laid charge upon me , to build to him a house , in Jerusalem , which is in Judah . Who is there among you of all his people with whom is Yahweh his God ? Then let him go up .

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