2 Chronicles 36:16-17

Judah's Decline

16 d But they kept mocking the messengers of God, e despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, f until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 g Therefore he brought up against 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 aged. He gave them all into his hand.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:12 - 13
    They have spoken falsely of the Lord and have said, 'He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.
  2. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:25
    Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof.
    Proverbs 1:30
    Would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof.
  3. Cross References
    Ezra 5:12
    But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17 - 20
    Therefore he brought up against 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 aged. He gave them all into his hand.
    2 Kings 25:1 - 7
    And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
    Deuteronomy 28:49
    The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
    Ezra 9:7
    From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.
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