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2 Chronicles 36

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  1. 1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.18 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:11, 2 Kings 23:30–37, 1 Chronicles 3:15, 2 Chronicles 26:1, 2 Chronicles 33:25
  2. 2Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
  3. 3And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.7 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:33
  4. 4And 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.9 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:10–12, Ezekiel 19:3–4, 2 Kings 23:34–35, 1 Chronicles 3:15
  5. 5Jehoiakim 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.21 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:36–37, Jeremiah 26:1, Jeremiah 22:13–19, Jeremiah 36:1, Jeremiah 35:1
  6. 6Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.26 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 33:11, Daniel 1:1–2, 2 Kings 24:1–2, Jeremiah 25:9, Habakkuk 1:5–10
  7. 7Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.13 cross-references: 2 Kings 24:13, Daniel 5:2–4, Ezra 1:7–11, Daniel 1:2, Jeremiah 28:3
  8. 8Now 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.8 cross-references: 2 Kings 24:5–6, Matthew 1:11–12, 1 Chronicles 3:16–17, Jeremiah 22:28, Jeremiah 22:24
  9. 9Jehoiachin 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.14 cross-references: 2 Kings 24:8–17
  10. 10And 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.42 cross-references: Jeremiah 37:1, 2 Chronicles 36:7, Ezekiel 1:2, Jeremiah 24:1, 2 Samuel 11:1
  11. 11Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.14 cross-references: 2 Kings 24:18–20, Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 52:1–3, Jeremiah 27:1
  12. 12And 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.25 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 33:23, Jeremiah 37:2–21, Jeremiah 38:14–28, 1 Peter 5:6, James 4:10
  13. 13And 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.41 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 30:8, Ezekiel 17:11–20, Exodus 9:17, Hebrews 3:13, 2 Kings 17:4
  14. 14Moreover 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.52 cross-references: Daniel 9:8, Micah 7:2, Ezra 9:7, Jeremiah 5:5, 2 Chronicles 33:4–7
  15. 15And 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:54 cross-references: Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 35:15, Jeremiah 25:3–4, 2 Chronicles 24:18–21, Jeremiah 26:5
  16. 16But 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.88 cross-references: Jeremiah 5:12–13, Luke 22:63–64, 2 Chronicles 30:10, Psalms 74:1, Jeremiah 32:3
  17. 17Therefore 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.60 cross-references: Psalms 74:20, Ezra 9:7, Jeremiah 40:3, Ezekiel 9:5–7, 2 Chronicles 24:21
  18. 18And 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.25 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Kings 20:13–17, Daniel 5:3, Jeremiah 52:17–23
  19. 19And 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.29 cross-references: Psalms 79:1, Isaiah 64:10–11, Luke 21:6, Jeremiah 7:4, Micah 3:12
  20. 20And 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:20 cross-references: Jeremiah 27:7, Ezra 1:1–11, 2 Kings 25:11, 2 Chronicles 36:22, Deuteronomy 28:47–48
  21. 21To 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.33 cross-references: Jeremiah 29:10, Leviticus 26:34–35, Jeremiah 25:11–12, Daniel 9:2, Zechariah 1:12
  22. 22Now 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,33 cross-references: Jeremiah 25:12, Ezra 1:1–3, Jeremiah 29:10, Isaiah 44:28 – Isaiah 45:5, 2 Chronicles 36:21
  23. 23Thus 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.17 cross-references: Daniel 5:23, Daniel 2:21, Psalms 75:5–7, Daniel 2:37, Isaiah 44:26–28

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God, Nebuchadnezzar, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeremiah, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah, Cyrus, Josiah, Pharaoh-nechoh

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Jerusalem, Babylon, Persia, Egypt

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