2 Chronicles 36:15-21
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The Lord, the God of their fathers, c sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
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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.
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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.
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h And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
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i And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.
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He j took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, k and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
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to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had l enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate m it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 7:13
And now, because you have done all these things...
Jeremiah 7:25
From the day that your fathers came out of the ...
Jeremiah 25:3 - 4
For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth yea...
Jeremiah 26:5
And to listen to the words of my servants the p...
Jeremiah 29:19
Because they did not pay attention to my words,...
Jeremiah 35:15
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets...
Jeremiah 44:4
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants ...
Jeremiah 11:7
For I solemnly warned your fathers when I broug...
Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned to me their back and not their...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Cross References
2 Kings 25:13 - 15
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
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.
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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Cross References
2 Kings 25:9
And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
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2 Kings 25:11
And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:34 - 35
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:43
But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:4 - 5
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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