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2 Chronicles 36:1-23 — The Last Kings of Judah; The Fall of Jerusalem

2Chr.36.1-23

¹Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. ²Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³And the king of Egypt removed him in Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴Then 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 brought him to Egypt. ⁵Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. ⁶Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. ⁷Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon. ⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which 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. ⁹Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. ¹⁰At the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious articles of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. ¹¹Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹²And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD. ¹³He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. ¹⁴Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithfulness, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the LORD, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. ¹⁵And the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by the hand of his messengers, persistently sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ¹⁶But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy. ¹⁷Therefore 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. ¹⁸And all the articles 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 officials, all these he brought to Babylon. ¹⁹And 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 articles. ²⁰He carried away into exile to Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. ²²Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying: ²³“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth , and he has appointed me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.'”

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4/11/2026

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