2 Chronicles 36
World English Bible (WEB) • 23 verses
1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
RelatedJeremiah 22:11 · 2 Kings 23:30-37 · 2 Chronicles 26:1 · 1 Chronicles 3:15 · 2 Chronicles 33:25
2Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Related2 Kings 23:33
4The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight.
Related2 Kings 23:36-37 · Jeremiah 26:1 · Jeremiah 22:13-19 · Jeremiah 36:1 · Jeremiah 36:27-32 · Jeremiah 26:21-23
6Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
Related2 Chronicles 33:11 · 2 Kings 24:1-2 · 2 Kings 24:5-6 · Jeremiah 25:9 · Daniel 1:1-2 · Ezekiel 19:5-9
7Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the LORD’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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 place.
9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight.
Related2 Kings 24:8-17
10At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the LORD’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
RelatedJeremiah 37:1 · 2 Chronicles 36:7 · Daniel 5:2 · 1 Chronicles 3:15-16 · Jeremiah 24:1 · Daniel 1:1-2
11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the LORD’s mouth.
Related2 Chronicles 33:23 · Jeremiah 37:2-21 · Jeremiah 38:14-28 · Jeremiah 27:12-28:17 · Jeremiah 34:2-22 · 2 Chronicles 32:26
13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Related2 Chronicles 30:8 · Jeremiah 52:2-3 · Ezekiel 17:11-20 · 2 Kings 17:4 · Isaiah 48:4 · Hebrews 3:8
14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the LORD’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
RelatedEzekiel 22:6 · Daniel 9:8 · Jeremiah 37:13-15 · 2 Kings 16:10-16 · 2 Chronicles 28:3 · Daniel 9:6
15The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
RelatedJeremiah 35:15 · Jeremiah 7:13 · Jeremiah 25:3-4 · Luke 19:41-44 · Judges 10:16 · Jeremiah 44:4-5
16but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
RelatedJeremiah 5:12-13 · 2 Chronicles 30:10 · Luke 22:63-64 · Jeremiah 32:3 · Psalms 74:1 · Proverbs 6:15
17Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm. He gave them all into his hand.
18All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the LORD’s house, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
Related2 Chronicles 36:10 · 2 Chronicles 36:7 · Jeremiah 27:18-22 · 2 Kings 25:13-17 · Zechariah 1:6 · 2 Kings 20:13-17
19They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
20He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
21to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
RelatedJeremiah 29:10 · Leviticus 26:34-35 · Jeremiah 25:11-12 · Zechariah 1:12 · Daniel 9:2 · Leviticus 26:43
22Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the LORD’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
RelatedJeremiah 25:12 · Ezra 1:1-3 · Jeremiah 29:10 · 2 Chronicles 36:21 · Isaiah 44:28-45:5 · Jeremiah 33:10-14
23“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.’”
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