| 36:1 |
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in
Jerusalem.
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| 36:2 |
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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| 36:3 |
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and
condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a
talent of gold.
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| 36:4 |
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and
carried him to Egypt.
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| 36:5 |
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and
he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his
God.
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| 36:6 |
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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| 36:7 |
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the
house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple
at Babylon.
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| 36:8 |
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was found in
him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
stead.
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| 36:9 |
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD.
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| 36:10 |
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar
sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels
of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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| 36:11 |
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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| 36:12 |
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the
prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
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| 36:13 |
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who
had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and
hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of
Israel.
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| 36:14 |
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the
people, transgressed very much after all the abominations
of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which
he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
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| 36:15 |
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he
had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
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| 36:16 |
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised
his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of
the LORD arose against his people, till there was no
remedy.
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| 36:17 |
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the
house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon
young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age:
he gave them all into his hand.
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| 36:18 |
And all the vessels 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 princes; all these
he brought to Babylon.
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| 36:19 |
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with
fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
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| 36:20 |
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he
away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his
sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
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| 36:21 |
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as
long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil
threescore and ten years.
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| 36:22 |
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah
might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of
Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying,
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| 36:23 |
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of
the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he
hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which
is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people?
The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
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