The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 36:5 (ESV)

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:6 (ESV)

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

 

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2 Chronicles 36:7 (ERV)
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:8 (RSV)

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoi′akim, 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 Jehoi′achin his son reigned in his stead.

 

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2 Chronicles 36:9 (BSB)
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:10 (ASV)

And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

 

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2 Chronicles 36:11 (ASV)

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:

 

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2 Chronicles 36:12 (ERV)
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God; he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:13 (RV)

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, the God of Israel.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:14 (RV)

Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the heathen; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

 

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2 Chronicles 36:15 (BSB)
Time and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers, because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:16 (ESV)

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:17 (ESV)

Jerusalem Captured and Burned​

17. Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.

 

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2 Chronicles 36:18 (King James 2000 Bible)
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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2 Chronicles 36:19 (ERV)
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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2 Chronicles 36:20 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
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;

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:21 (ESV)

to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 36:22 (ESV)

The Proclamation of Cyrus​

22. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

 

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2 Chronicles 36:23 (ERV)
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

 

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Ezra 1:1 (ERV)
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD 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,