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Chapter 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. |
| 2 | Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 6 | Against him came up
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to
Babylon. |
| 7 | Nebuchadnezzar
also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them
in his temple at Babylon. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11 | Zedekiah
was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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, |
| 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. |
