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2 Chronicles 36 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:3 - Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.
(2Ki 23:34—24:7 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
(2Ki 24:8–17 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Captivity in Babylon Begun

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Zedekiah Rules in Judah

(2Ki 24:18–20; Jer 52:1–3 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:11 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
(2Ki 25:1–21; Jer 52:4–30 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 - And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:16 - But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And all who had not come to death by the sword he took away prisoners to Babylon; and they became servants to him and to his sons till the kingdom of Persia came to power:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

Cyrus Permits Return

(Ezr 1:1–4 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.
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