2 Kings 24
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k In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
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And the Lord sent against him bands of the l Chaldeans and m bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, n according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, o for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,
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and also p for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
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q Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
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So Jehoiakim r slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
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s And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, t for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt u from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
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v Jehoiachin was w eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, x according to all that his father had done.
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At that time the servants of y Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
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And y Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
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z and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. a The king of Babylon took him prisoner b in the eighth year of his reign
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and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord c and the treasures of the king's house, d and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, e which Solomon king of Israel had made, f as the Lord had foretold.
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g He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, h 10,000 captives, i and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, j except the poorest people of the land.
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k And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, l 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.
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m And the king of Babylon n made Mattaniah, o Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, p and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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q Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was r Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, s according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. t And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
Jeremiah 25:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon).
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
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2 Kings 25:4
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
Jeremiah 32:28 - 29
Therefore, thus says the Lord : Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.
Jeremiah 35:11
But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 19:8
Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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Jeremiah 35:11
But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
2 Kings 21:12 - 14
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
2 Kings 23:27
And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
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2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
2 Kings 23:26
Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
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2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
Jeremiah 22:18 - 19
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, my brother!' or 'Ah, sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, lord!' or 'Ah, his majesty!
Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
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Jeremiah 37:5 - 7
The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 46:2
About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
Jeremiah 46:20
A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.
Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.
Jeremiah 46:26
I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the Lord.
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Numbers 34:5
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
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1 Chronicles 3:16
The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son,...
Esther 2:6
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem among ...
Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the...
Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a ve...
Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken ...
Jeremiah 37:1
Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar...
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2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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2 Kings 23:37
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
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Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
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2 Kings 24:10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
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Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:1 - 2
These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.
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2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 25:27
And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
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2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
Isaiah 39:6
Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.
Ezra 1:7
Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
Daniel 5:2 - 3
Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
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1 Kings 7:48 - 50
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord : the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence.
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Jeremiah 20:5
Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
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2 Kings 24:16
And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.
Jeremiah 52:28
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans.
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Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:2
This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.
1 Samuel 13:22
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
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2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Esther 2:6
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.
Jeremiah 22:24 - 26
As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
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2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
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2 Kings 24:17 - 20
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Chronicles 36:10 - 13
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 37:1
Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.
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1 Chronicles 3:15
The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
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2 Kings 23:34
And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
2 Chronicles 36:4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.
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2 Kings 24:18 - 25:21
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah 52:1 - 27
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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2 Kings 23:31
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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2 Kings 23:37
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
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Ezekiel 17:18
He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.
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