2Chr 36
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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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Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem.
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And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents
of silver and a talent of gold.
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And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and
changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to
Egypt.
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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 YHWH his God.
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Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry
him to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of YHWH to Babylon, and put
them in his temple at Babylon.
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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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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 YHWH.
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And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon,
with the goodly vessels of the house of YHWH, and made Zedekiah his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem.
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Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem:
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and he did that which was evil in the sight of YHWH his God; he humbled not himself
before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of YHWH.
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And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but
he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to YHWH, the God of
Israel.
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Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after
all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of YHWH which he
had hallowed in Jerusalem.
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And YHWH, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early
and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:
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but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his
prophets, until the anger of YHWH arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
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Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men
with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man
or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
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And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the
house of YHWH, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought
to Babylon.
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And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all
its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
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And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were
servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
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to fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its
sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore
and ten years.
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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be accomplished, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing,
saying,
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Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has YHWH, the God of
heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, YHWH his God be with him,
and let him go up.