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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 L
ORD
.
10
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought
him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
his God,
and
humbled not
himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking
from the mouth of the L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15
And the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
spoken
by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
his God
be
with him, and let him go up.
Ezra
572
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