2 Chronicles, Chapter 36:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 36 of the book of 2 Chronicles of the Bible.
Jehoahaz is king of Judah
- 1. Then the people took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and proclaimed him king in Jerusalem in his father's place.
- 2. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned only three months in Jerusalem.
- 3. The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a tribute of three and a half tons of silver and thirty-five kilograms of gold.
- 4. The king of Egypt proclaimed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz, Eliakim's brother, to Egypt.
Jehoiachin is king of Judah
- 5. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. However, he did what was evil before the Lord his God.
- 6. Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against him and bound him with bronze fetters to take him to Babylon.
- 7. Nebuchadnezzar also took objects from the temple of the Lord to Babylon and placed them in his temple.
- 8. The rest of the events of Jehoiakim's reign, the evil things he did, and everything that was found against him are written in the records of the kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiakim became king in his place.
Jeconiah is king of Judah
- 9. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil before the Lord.
- 10. Early the following year, King Nebuchadnezzar took him to Babylon, along with the valuables from the temple of the Lord, and appointed Zedekiah, Jehoiachin's uncle, as king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Zedekiah is king of Judah
- 11. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
- 12. He did evil before the Lord his God, and did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
- 13. Furthermore, he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear loyalty to God. Zedekiah became obstinate and did not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.
- 14. Also all the leaders of the priests and the people increased their unfaithfulness, imitating all the abominations of the heathen nations and desecrating the temple of the Lord, which he consecrated in Jerusalem.
The fall of Jerusalem
- 15. The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent his messengers to them repeatedly, for he had compassion on his people and his home.
- 16. But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and ridiculed his prophets, until the anger of the Lord against his people became irremediable.
- 17. Then the Lord brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed the young men of Judah with the sword in the temple of the Lord. He spared neither young people, nor women, nor the elderly. God gave them all into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar.
- 18. He took to Babylon all the utensils of the temple of God, large and small, the treasures of the temple of the Lord, the treasures of the king and his officials.
- 19. The Babylonians set fire to the temple of God, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all the valuable objects that remained.
- 20. Nebuchadnezzar took into exile in Babylon the remnant that escaped the sword, and they became his servants and those of his sons, until the dominion of the kingdom of Persia,
- 21. so that the word of the Lord announced by Jeremiah would be fulfilled, that the land would enjoy its Sabbaths throughout the time of its desolation, until seventy years were completed.
- 22. In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord awakened the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout his kingdom and the he also wrote, saying:
- 23. “This is what Cyrus, king of Persia, says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has commissioned me to build him a temple in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever among you is of his people, May the Lord his God be with him and go to Jerusalem.”
