2 Chronicles 36:11
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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.
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