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2 Chronicles 36:17-21
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2 Chronicles 36:17-21
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Jerusalem Is Destroyed
(2 Kings 25.1-21; Jeremiah 52.3-30)
17 (A) The Lord sent King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to attack Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar killed the young men who were in the temple, and he showed no mercy to anyone, whether man or woman, young or old. God let him kill everyone in the city. 18 Nebuchadnezzar carried off everything that was left in the temple; he robbed the treasury and the personal storerooms of the king and his officials. He took everything back to Babylon.
19 (B) Nebuchadnezzar's troops burned down the temple and destroyed every important building in the city. Then they broke down the city wall. 20 The survivors were taken to Babylonia as prisoners, where they were slaves of the king and his sons, until Persia became a powerful nation.
21 (C) Judah was an empty desert, and it stayed that way for 70 years, to make up for all the years it was not allowed to rest.[a] These things happened just as Jeremiah the Lord's prophet had said.[b]
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2 Chronicles 36:17-21
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2 Chronicles 36:17-21
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17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[a](A) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men(B) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.(C) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.(D) 18 He carried to Babylon all the articles(E) from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. 19 They set fire(F) to God’s temple(G) and broke down the wall(H) of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed(I) everything of value there.(J)
20 He carried into exile(K) to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants(L) to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests;(M) all the time of its desolation it rested,(N) until the seventy years(O) were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans
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