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In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up ,
and Jehoiakim became his servant three years :
then he turned and rebelled against him .
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And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees ,
and bands of the Syrians ,
and bands of the Moabites ,
and bands of the children of Ammon ,
and sent them against Judah to destroy it ,
according to the word of the LORD ,
which he spake by his servants the prophets .
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Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah ,
to remove them out of his sight ,
for the sins of Manasseh ,
according to all that he did ;
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And also for the innocent blood that he shed :
for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood ;
which the LORD would not pardon .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim ,
and all that he did ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers :
and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead .
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And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land :
for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt .
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months .
And his mother '
s name was Nehushta ,
the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem .
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that his father had done .
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At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem ,
and the city was besieged .
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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city ,
and his servants did besiege it .
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And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon ,
he ,
and his mother ,
and his servants ,
and his princes ,
and his officers :
and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign .
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And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD ,
and the treasures of the king '
s house ,
and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD ,
as the LORD had said .
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And he carried away all Jerusalem ,
and all the princes ,
and all the mighty men of valour ,
even ten thousand captives ,
and all the craftsmen and smiths :
none remained ,
save the poorest sort of the people of the land .
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And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon ,
and the king '
s mother ,
and the king '
s wives ,
and his officers ,
and the mighty of the land ,
those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon .
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And all the men of might ,
even seven thousand ,
and craftsmen and smiths a thousand ,
all that were strong and apt for war ,
even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon .
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father '
s brother king in his stead ,
and changed his name to Zedekiah .
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Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Hamutal ,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .
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For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah ,
until he had cast them out from his presence ,
that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign ,
in the tenth month ,
in the tenth day of the month ,
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came ,
he ,
and all his host ,
against Jerusalem ,
and pitched against it ;
and they built forts against it round about .
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And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah .
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And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city ,
and there was no bread for the people of the land .
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And the city was broken up ,
and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls ,
which is by the king '
s garden : (
now the Chaldees were against the city round about :)
and the king went the way toward the plain .
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And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king ,
and overtook him in the plains of Jericho :
and all his army were scattered from him .
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So they took the king ,
and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah ;
and they gave judgment upon him .
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And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes ,
and put out the eyes of Zedekiah ,
and bound him with fetters of brass ,
and carried him to Babylon .
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And in the fifth month ,
on the seventh day of the month ,
which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ,
came Nebuzaradan ,
captain of the guard ,
a servant of the king of Babylon ,
unto Jerusalem :
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And he burnt the house of the LORD ,
and the king '
s house ,
and all the houses of Jerusalem ,
and every great man '
s house burnt he with fire .
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And all the army of the Chaldees ,
that were with the captain of the guard ,
brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about .
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Now the rest of the people that were left in the city ,
and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon ,
with the remnant of the multitude ,
did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away .
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But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen .
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And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD ,
and the bases ,
and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD ,
did the Chaldees break in pieces ,
and carried the brass of them to Babylon .
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And the pots ,
and the shovels ,
and the snuffers ,
and the spoons ,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered ,
took they away .
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And the firepans ,
and the bowls ,
and such things as were of gold ,
in gold ,
and of silver ,
in silver ,
the captain of the guard took away .
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The two pillars ,
one sea ,
and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD ;
the brass of all these vessels was without weight .
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits ,
and the chapiter upon it was brass :
and the height of the chapiter three cubits ;
and the wreathen work ,
and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about ,
all of brass :
and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work .
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest ,
and Zephaniah the second priest ,
and the three keepers of the door :
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And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war ,
and five men of them that were in the king '
s presence ,
which were found in the city ,
and the principal scribe of the host ,
which mustered the people of the land ,
and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city :
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And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these ,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah :
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And the king of Babylon smote them ,
and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath .
So Judah was carried away out of their land .
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And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah ,
whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left ,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam ,
the son of Shaphan ,
ruler .
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And when all the captains of the armies ,
they and their men ,
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor ,
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah ,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and Johanan the son of Careah ,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite ,
and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite ,
they and their men .
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And Gedaliah sware to them ,
and to their men ,
and said unto them ,
Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees :
dwell in the land ,
and serve the king of Babylon ;
and it shall be well with you .
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But it came to pass in the seventh month ,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
the son of Elishama ,
of the seed royal ,
came ,
and ten men with him ,
and smote Gedaliah ,
that he died ,
and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah .
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And all the people ,
both small and great ,
and the captains of the armies ,
arose ,
and came to Egypt :
for they were afraid of the Chaldees .
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah ,
in the twelfth month ,
on the seven and twentieth day of the month ,
that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison ;
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And he spake kindly to him ,
and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon ;
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And changed his prison garments :
and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life .
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And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king ,
a daily rate for every day ,
all the days of his life .
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