2 Chronicles 36
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2 Chr 36:1
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Then the people of the land took (I.e. short form of Jehoahaz) Joahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.
2 Chr 36:2
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Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chr 36:3
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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.
2 Chr 36:4
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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.
2 Chr 36:5
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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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2 Chr 36:8
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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.
2 Chr 36:9
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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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2 Chr 36:11
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chr 36:12
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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.
2 Chr 36:13
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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.
2 Chr 36:14
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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.
2 Chr 36:15
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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;
2 Chr 36:16
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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.
2 Chr 36:17
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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.
2 Chr 36:18
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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.
2 Chr 36:19
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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.
2 Chr 36:20
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Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
2 Chr 36:21
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to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete.
2 Chr 36:22
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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia--in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah--the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also {put it} in writing, saying,
2 Chr 36:23
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"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, `The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up!"'
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