2 Chronicles 36:17 References
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aTherefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
a 2 Kings 25:1-7, Jeremiah 21:1-10
2 Kings 25
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aNow in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and cbuilt a siege wall all around it.
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So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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On the ninth day of the fourth month athe famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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aThen the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside bthe king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him.
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Then athey captured the king and bbrought him to the king of Babylon at cRiblah, and he passed sentence on him.
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aThey slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then bput out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.
Jeremiah 21
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when aKing Zedekiah sent to him bPashhur the son of Malchijah, and cZephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,
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"Please ainquire of the Lord on our behalf, for bNebuchadnezzar king of cBabylon is warring against us; perhaps the Lord will deal with us daccording to all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us."
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Then Jeremiah said to them, "You shall say to Zedekiah as follows:
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'Thus says the Lord God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to aturn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will bgather them into the center of this city.
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"I aMyself will war against you with an boutstretched hand and a mighty arm, even in canger and wrath and great indignation.
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"I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great apestilence.
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"Then afterwards," declares the Lord, "aI will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He bwill not spare them nor have pity nor compassion."'
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"You shall also say to this people, 'Thus says the Lord, "Behold, I aset before you the way of life and the way of death.