2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 36
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2 Chronicles 36 — Scripture text (King James Version)
Then the people of the land took the son of , and made him king in his father’s stead in . Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in . And the king of him down at , and condemned the land in an hundred of silver and a of gold. And the king of made his brother king over and , and turned his name to . And took his brother, and carried him to . was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in : and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. Against him came up king of , and bound him in fetters, to carry him to . also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to , and them in his at . Now the rest of the acts of , and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are of the kings of and : and his son reigned in his stead. was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in : and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. And when the year was expired, king sent, and brought him to , with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother king over and . was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in . And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. And he also rebelled against king , who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of . 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 . And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion his people, and his dwelling place: 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. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the , who slew their young men with the 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. 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 . And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of , and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the carried he away to ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of : To fulfil of the LORD by the mouth of , until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept , to fulfil threescore and ten years. Now in the first year of king of , that of the LORD spoken by the mouth of might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of king of , that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and it also in writing, saying, Thus saith king of , 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 , which is in . Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.