2Chronicles:35:1-19
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Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah ,
and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem .
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Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king ,
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem .
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Then the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem ,
and imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold .
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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 brought him to Egypt .
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king ,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem ;
and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God .
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon .
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Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles 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 the abominations which he did ,
and what was found against him ,
behold ,
they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah .
And Jehoiachin his son became king in his place .
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Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king ,
and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem ,
and he did evil in the sight of the LORD .
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At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD ,
and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem .
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king ,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem .
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He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God ;
he did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet who spoke for the LORD .
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He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God .
But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD God of Israel .
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Furthermore ,
all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations ;
and they defiled the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem .
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The LORD ,
the God of their fathers ,
sent word to them again and again by His messengers ,
because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place ;
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but they continually mocked the messengers of God ,
despised His words and scoffed at His prophets ,
until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people ,
until there was no remedy .
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Therefore 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 on young man or virgin ,
old man or infirm ;
He gave them all into his hand .
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All the articles 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 officers ,
he brought them all to Babylon .
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Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem ,
and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles .