Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Chronicles: Chapter 36
1. THEN
the people of the land took Je-ho-a-haz the son of Josiah, and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2. Je-ho-a-haz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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 E-li-a-kim his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem, and turned his name to Je-hoi-a-kim. And Ne-cho took
Je-ho-a-haz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5. Je-hoi-a-kim 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 Neb-u-chad-nez-zar king of Babylon, and
bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7. Neb-u-chad-nez-zar 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 Je-hoi-a-kim, 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 Je-hoi-a-chin his son reigned
in his stead.
9. Je-hoi-a-chin 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 Neb-u-chad-nez-zar sent, and
brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the
LORD, and made Zed-e-ki-ah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11. Zed-e-ki- ah 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 Neb-u-chad-nez-zar, 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 Chal-dees, 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, an 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.
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